Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." On that evening in Oklahoma, amid the lilting melody of a seven-piece band, that commandment at first brims with a kind of inclusiveness as whites, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics as well as one Croatian immigrant clap their hands, rocking with the zealotry of the converted as they all sing Lord, Purify My Heart. On the small scale of Lawton's First Assembly of God church, the inspiration is palpable, touching, poignant. But in the grander scheme...
...that the feminist fixation on power has sadly missed the point of the present cultural situation," said Mary Ellen Bork, the wife of the failed Supreme Court nominee and a lecturer on Catholic life. "In our view, power is not the goal in life." Added Pat Funderburk Ware, an African-American expert on preventing teenage pregnancy and HIV infection: "So many white women...are so co-opted by the feminist movement because they haven't suffered enough. They really don't know what it is not to have their men there...We've suffered enough...
...world's most remote areas. It has almost no roads, and the Nuer ethnic group that populates it is extremely isolated. To make matters worse, the Islamic fundamentalist-influenced government in Khartoum was engaged in a civil war with the people of the south, where Christianity and traditional African religions prevail. Displacement caused by the war and famines had further weakened the population, and the government showed no interest in stopping a disease that might prove more effective than armed troops in quelling rebellious groups...
...eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother frantically tried to keep him breathing. When Seaman bent down to get closer, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on her ankles and arms in an African feeding frenzy. Ignoring her own discomfort, she prepared an IV, but the boy's blood pressure was so low and his arms so thin that she could not find a vein...
...next big epidemic in Sudan will probably be sleeping sickness. The African trypanosome parasite that causes it is a distant cousin of the kala-azar protozoan. Infection rates in some villages in Western Equatoria, just south of the western Upper Nile, are already running at 20%. Experts question whether the disease can be treated without hospitalization--an option that, because of the large numbers infected, is out of the question. It is the kind of impossible field-medical problem that is tailor-made for Jill Seaman, and she has already indicated that she would like to get involved...