Love and discipline
LAST NIGHT, as is the case of so many nights, we heard gunshots just as we were going to bed. Earlier in the day a young man was murdered outside Jacob's Well along Hanover Street. - Richard Ho Lung

European questions
ON SEVERAL occasions during his presidency, Ronald Reagan speculated that, if faced with an alien invasion, the United States and the Soviet Union would quickly forget their "local differences" to make common cause... - Dan Rather

The coming pandemic
THE LONG-TERM solution is to invest many billions of dollars and a huge amount of political capital in persuading peasant families throughout China and South-East Asia to change the way they raise their poultry. - Gwynne Dyer