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...three-and-a-half meters wide. Meandering at a rate of 17 curves per kilometer through the valleys and mountains of the tiny Himalayan kingdom, the road may be better acquainted with cattle than automobiles. At dawn and long after dusk, its rutted asphalt rings with the chatter of schoolchildren traveling hours by foot for their daily lessons. By noon, the highway is a playground for rambunctious monkeys, a drying rack for chilies, and?by the grace of an occasional car or truck?an ingenious tool for flattening bamboo. Waters from holy streams course alongside it, and towering stands...
ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Tends to run in families and affects two to three times as many boys as girls. Between 3% and 5% of U.S. schoolchildren are thought to have ADHD...
...streets, we could write it off as irritating but harmless rabble rousing. Unfortunately, President-elect Roh Moo-hyun owes his recent electoral victory to anti-American passions. Most infuriating was his offer to mediate between the United States and North Korea, as if the two sides were equally naughty schoolchildren and South Korea a neutral observer...
...appearance to this monster." "The background should have been red and yellow," suggested an upstate New York reader, "to symbolize the blood of thousands of innocent victims and the fire of hatred he has ignited among his followers." And a Massachusetts woman felt an urge known to so many schoolchildren: "At least you could have added horns and a pitchfork...
...Zhang says he has learned to ignore such carping. But in recent years, he seems to have taken it to heart. In his heartwarming Not One Less (1999) he deftly sweetened a story about the bitter plight of impoverished rural schoolchildren with lighthearted humor and an almost cloyingly cheerful ending. The dusting of sugar made it palatable to audiences and censors alike without weakening its searing social commentary. But at times his compromises have yielded less success. His last film, Happy Times, was originally conceived as a tale of laid-off workers struggling for dignity while submitting themselves to ever...