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Doctors in’ England are
under enticism, according to a
November report in’ the
National Past, tor having per-
formed oa leg-stretching
surgery on Emma Richards,
16, apparently only for the
purpose of making her happi-
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aspired te be a flight: atten-
dant (mininium height, 5° 37)
bur had stopped growing at 4°
9". Surgeons fractured ber
femurs and inserted pins to
gradually separate the pieces
so that bone material would
grow internally to fuse the
picces back together. Un the
10 months since the opera-
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es but also has endured a bad
infection and two uninten-
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Cultural Diversity: Crities
of China's one-child. policy
say it has produced the coun-
try’s most overindulged gen-
erativn ever, a symptom. of
which is the Jin Duoba camp
in Shanghai, famous for its

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Asleep at the switch —

tough dove regumen tor over
weight kids. Avcerding to an
October story in the Clicaae
Sar-Times, the camp is mod-
celled: atter military training,
including requirmty kids te
srawboon their bellies while
take bullets ly everhead.

Ia another. sadder, aspect
af China's populanon policy,
officials in a village near
Wuhan allevediy drowned 4
just born baby im front of its
parents in August because the
Parents grossly violated the
countey’s one child policy. Mt
was actually the couple's
fourth child, and officials had
carlicr injected the mother
with a saline solution to kill
the fetus, but the baby was
nevertheless born healthy.
The Beijing government's
official position is that the vil-

lage authorities overstepped
their bounds.

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genes of all 107,000 citizens
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Tonga. Otticials tinally mailed
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checks te 302 inmate-victims
of New York's Anica prison
riots, Which occurred in 1971,

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