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...last guests left the open house, an orange moon rose above the seven side-by-side graves in East Lawn Cemetery next to the hospital. "Wherever they are," said one of the departing guests, "I hope we made them proud...
...grow -- shoppers in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, have yet to see one store. The chain got started in 1962 much the way Sears did decades earlier, by targeting far-flung small towns and underserved rural areas. Stocking everything from cosmetics and record albums to shirts and lawn furniture, Wal-Mart developed a loyal core of customers devoted to fast, friendly service and consistently low prices...
...months since Iraqi tanks rumbled into Kuwait, stores and restaurants owned by Arab Americans in Los Angeles and Detroit have been set afire. Many Arab-American leaders are receiving regular death threats. At the home of a Lebanese family in Dearborn, vandals burned an Iraqi flag on the front lawn. On Jan. 19 in Blissfield, Mich., 60 townspeople helped scrub clean the walls of a Dairy Queen, owned by a Palestinian American, on which vandals had sprayed U.S.A. NO 1. Last week the Dairy Queen was burned to the ground...
...foreign tourists to their refugee camp in front of city hall. There, the visitors found a second city of cardboard condos, clogged with the traffic of shopping carts through makeshift living rooms, outfitted with easy chairs and dresser drawers. The waterless fountain steamed with stale urine; a sun-scorched lawn sprouted cigarette butts...
...Beattie arrived hyper and antisocial at a state hospital where, eventually, a "spiritual experience" on the hospital lawn transformed her. "I lay back and the whole sky seemed to turn purple, and I became fully aware that there was a God. My consciousness was raised at that moment." This rebirth, as Beattie tells it, kept her alive. "She's a girl who put her whole heart into getting away from the drug life, and she would not be alive today if she had continued it," agrees Ruth Anderson, one of Beattie's counselors...