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Darfur Refugee Tells Her Story

A simply engrossing story from the first to last: Darfur doctor: ‘I was raped and taunted as a black dog’ A survivor of the conflict tells of her abuse at the hands of the Sudanese regime Halima Bashir - From The Times - July 14, 2008 My name is Halima. I come from a warlike black African tribe, the Zaghawa, who inhabit the southern Darfur region of Sudan. But I live as a refugee in London, and it is the horrors of the war in Darfur that drove me from my homeland, scattering my family to t read

Angola, land of Endless War

At Ondangua, northern Namibia, I met up with the convoy I was travelling with into Angola. We encountered no border controls and continued on past Ruacana Falls to Xangongo, which was once a prosperous Portuguese town, but now most buildings had no roofs and the town was quiet and overgrown. Many of the crumbling buildings’ white-washed facades were riddled with bullet holes. In some places, the road was not clear and the convoy needed to back track several times. On one such occasion, when the read

Mal de Chagas-Mazza

1. Review hist ó Rica 2. Who transmitting the Chagas disease-Mazza? How it conveys? 3. Evolution of Evil Chagas-Mazza 4. Is it possible to cure the Chagas disease-Mazza? 5. How to combat insect vector? 6. Social impact of Evil Chagas-Mazza 7. No Conclusion ó 1. Review hist ó Rica At be studying diseases in the malarious area Lassance (state of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Dr. Carlos Chagas found a number of patients who had symptoms that were differ read

The Sida

Index 1. No ó INTRODUCTION 2. What is AIDS? 3. How does HIV? 4. SID: History 5. Even today a mystery: Where does HIV? 6. What contagious? 7. Transmission of HIV during sexual contact 8. Sexuality between men and HIV 9. Tests diagn ó sticas 10. Treatments 11. HIV / AIDS and Sport 12. AIDS in Argentina 13. Pregnancy and HIV in Argentina 14. The position of the Church against the AIDS and discrimination ó No 15. "Ways to conduct towar read

On '60 Minutes' Tonight (July 13)

From CBSnews DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL - With the military struggling to recruit and retain soldiers, gay soldiers claim that commanders are reluctant to discharge key personnel - even those openly gay - in the middle of a war, despite the don’t ask, don’t tell policy. Lesley Stahl reports. Karen Sughrue is the producer. LIFELINE - Remote Area Medical was founded to bring free medicine to remote parts of the world but now also helps thousands of the estimated 47 million Americans who have no hea read

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Sunday Talk - This Week in McCain Flip-Flops

The most under-reported story of the campaign continues to be McSame flip-flopping on every issue that come out of his mouth. Drilling offshore, tax cuts, immigration reform. No issue is too wide for McSame to wrap his arms around every side of it. Full Lineup and other goodies below... THE LINEUP - Meet The Press: Brian Williams hosts. Hopefully not for long. Joe Biden (D-BULLSHIT!), Huckleberry Graham (R-McSame). Very Serious Discourse John Harwood and Andrea Mitchell. Tweety: Jim read

Playing Politics to the Nth Degree

Now that Obama is the "presumptive nominee" the focus has switched from Obama & Clinton to Obama & McCain. They have several more months to torture us with their political games. Speaking of games, four years ago when Kerry was running against Bush I guy created a computer software game based on the election. Here is Anderson Cooper's interpretation of what the game would have been like in this June 2004 Nth entitled "Playing Politics to the Nth Degree". Tonight, playing politics read

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Sprinkles in Haiti: Fortifying Food, Protecting Kids

Sprinkles in Haiti: Fortifying Food, Protecting Kids By Bryan Schaaf on Wednesday, June 11, 2008. see more topics in: Fortification Health Hunger Micronutrient Deficiencies Nutrition Sprinkles Malnutrition is a major problem throughout the developing world including Haiti.  It saps the immune system, making it easier to get sick with and die from an infectious disease.  It slows cognitive development reducing the contributions a person can make to his or her country.  After years of business read

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“You’ve probably never heard a good news story about malnutrition, but you’re about to. Every year, malnutrition kills five million children — that’s one child every six seconds. But now, the Nobel Prize-winning relief group “Doctors Without Borders” says it finally has something that can save millions of these children.” Something to hope for, awareness and research really can help. How far a dollar can really go. Many people, some who are even close friends of mine will start to watch read