On the edge of town was an old motel which looked pretty seedy

On the edge of town was an old motel which looked pretty seedy, though judging by the absence of charred furniture in the front yard it was clearly a step up from the sort of place my dad would have chosen I pulled on to the gravel drive and went inside A woman of about 75 was sitting behind the desk She wore butterfly glasses and a beehive hairdo. She was doing one of those books that require you to find words in a mass of letters and circle them. I think it was called Word Puzzles for Morons.”Help yew?” she drawled without looking up.”I’d like a room for the night, please.”"That’ll be 38 dollars and fifty cents,” she replied as her pen fell greedily on the word YUP.I was nonplussed In my day a motel room cost about $12 “I don’t want to buy the room.” I explained. “I just want to sleep in it for one night.”She looked at me gravely over the tops of her glasses “The room is 38 dollars and fifty cents Per night Plus tax.

You want it or not?”We both knew that I was miles from anywhere “Yes, please,” I said contritely. I signed in and crunched across the gravel to my suite du nuit.Literally Lost 62: The action took place in Antarctica, the author was Sir Ranulph Fiennes There was no winner. Literally Lost 63: The action took place in California, the author was Umberto Eco The winner is K Walsh of Devon.. WAR TURNS children into orphans; in many places those orphans are forcibly turned into soldiers. Half a century of conflict between the government in Burma and rebel ethnic minorities has produced its share.
In Burma, 30 boys aged under 16 are part of a 300-strong group of fighters, part of the Karen National Liberation Army battalion at Kaw Long Cho, a camp near the border with Thailand.A new report from Amnesty International says at least 300,000 children across the world, from Africa and Latin America to south Asia – some of them aged little more than 10 – are serving as soldiers in combat today..

HE MAY be the first president this century to be impeached, but there was some good news for Bill Clinton yesterday, with reports that he was not after all the father of an illegitimate boy in his home state of Arkansas. In an article headed “Scandal Interruptus”, Time magazine’s Internet website reported that DNA tests on the boy, Danny Williams, 13, and his mother, Bobbie Ann, had shown no match with Mr Clinton “There was no match. Not even close,” Time quoted a source at the tabloid weekly, the Star, that commissioned the tests. The weekly was reported to have paid Ms Williams and her son to take the tests, intending to compare the results with the information about Mr Clinton’s DNA contained in the report of the independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
The editor of the tabloid, Phil Bunton, had said that he would publish only if the test showed that Mr Clinton could be the father.