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...large. Even allowing for a wide margin of shlock in the new season, some of it will be the shlock of recognition. With a gibe at anti Semitism here, a humorous insight into sexual hang-ups there, home screen entertainment is beginning to be a little less of a window on the void. It is becoming a little more of a mirror...
...philosophy class ends, and several young men offer an impromptu campus tour: This lot is where the new high-tech center will be built. This circular driveway is the main outdoor hangout. And in this otherwise empty dormitory, a lone television set is playing. The TV, visible through a window, glows on, always tuned to the same channel, day and night. "After the second murder, they evacuated the building," says one of the students through an interpreter. "And they forgot to turn it off. Kind of eerie...
Could serial murder be another cultural import, a virus floated in on the shared ether? Only if one assumes that it wasn't dormant in the community all along. In 1980 a Gallaudet student stabbed another to death and threw him out an eighth-story dorm window; the incident is little remembered on campus today. This may be because it contradicts the classic (and largely accurate) deaf model for misfortune--that it emanates from the hearing world. Says the publicity office's Prickett: "Most of the stories that get passed around are about a deaf person being hurt by misunderstanding...
...Birds is an informative and beautifully illustrated guide for any birder. Even more impressive is the possible impact David Allen Sibley's books may have on wildlife conservation. Bird watching is contagious; even our two indoor cats have become avid bird watchers, enjoying the view from our kitchen window. BEVERLY PROPEN Orange, Conn...
Once you're en route, however, the country's charms begin revealing themselves. Lower the window and watch as the rickshaws and pollution give way to rice paddies and simple villages. Crossing countless bridges, you're soon deep into a virtual marshland. Ferries ply the many canals and waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled...