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These attacks surely killed some Iraqi soldiers who happened to be in or near vehicles when they were hit. But locals in the fighting zones say much of the bombed-out machinery that they came across had few or no corpses inside. Iraqi soldiers learned not to sleep near their...
To say Chip Edgeworth's father was unhappy about his son's marriage would be an understatement. Chip, who is white, says that when his dad learned he had fallen in love with a black co-worker named Yvette, the elder Edgeworth threw his son out of the house the...
So much for China's much-touted new era of openness. For decades, countryside leaders have adhered to a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil approach to crises that has been largely accepted by a pliant populace. But with a deadly disease potentially exploding in the provinces, some of China...
It was as we were trying to leave Yuhuan county that local officials blocked the mountainous road and told us we needed to undergo a physical, since we were outsiders who could be carrying SARS. But instead of taking us to the hospital, the police drove us to the local...
A few years after I went blind at the age of 13, I sent away for a Braille book about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's ascent of Mount Everest. As I read, I imagined with fear and delight the two pioneers standing only 60 meters below the summit at...