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...helicopters. One of the fire men, scouring a ravine, suddenly shouted, "There's something moving down there!" He had spotted Ochiai between the seats. She was seriously hurt, with a broken pelvis and arm fractures, but she was conscious. Next the searchers found Keiko Kawakami, 12, caught in a tree and, incredibly, suffering only cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter Mikiko, 8, who were found under debris. Both had broken bones. The two children were lifted to the helicopter in the arms of troopers hanging from horse-collar slings. The women were...
...weekly ritual for Iranian families since the conflict with neighboring Iraq began to reap its harvest of victims, estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000. The graves at Behesht-e Zahra are tightly packed, sometimes no more than 6 in. apart, and they are advancing rapidly in tree-lined squares toward the perimeter of the 1.5-sq.-mi. cemetery. Aluminum-and-glass display cases contain photographs of the dead, many of them teenagers, along with family heirlooms. Most also bear a picture of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the octogenarian who guides Iran's side of the bloody campaign...
Ideally, a summit should produce some formal, leather-bound outcome, like the SALT I treaty that Richard Nixon brought home from his Moscow meeting with Leonid Brezhnev. A summit represents high history, the great encounter above the tree line. It sometimes excites almost sacramental expectations. Geneva produced neither great treaties nor triumphant rhetoric. The gray prose in use for such occasions reported that "the meetings were frank and useful. Serious differences remain." If Geneva represented anything, it was the triumph of candor and realism. No one got carried away...
...list. For Jeff, a C.P.A. who dreams of the open road, St. Nick is bringing a Harley-Davidson beach towel. Steve, a devoted cola drinker, is getting a sweatshirt emblazoned with the Coke trademark. Lara, a young sweet tooth, will find a pair of Hershey overalls under the tree. Dan, a Dr Pepper fan, will get a brand-new refrigerator (price: $529) plastered with his favorite soda's trademark. Indeed, as consumers head to the stores this week for the first official day of Christmas shopping, they will encounter a cornucopia of corporate logos. Companies have boldly stamped their name...
...Crack, craack, craaaack," booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black...