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Colin Cotterill owes a lot to hepatitis. In 1990, as an aid worker for UNESCO, he was dispatched to Laos to develop a curriculum for English classes. It was a bit of a Sisyphean assignment, since all the English textbooks in the country were written in German, a language virtually no one in Laos understood. On the flight from Europe, however, fate intervened. A doctor in the adjacent seat leaned over. "He said, 'You do realize you have hepatitis, don't you?'" Cotterill recalls. "I looked at myself in the mirror, and, by God, there were these big yellow tennis...
...bodies had been beheaded. While the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the deaths of 27 passengers, contending that they were Afghan soldiers, police chief Matiullah Khan Qaneh maintained that the Taliban had killed some 40 civilians who were en route to Iran in search of work. On Oct. 20, aid worker Gayle Williams, who had British and South African citizenship, was shot dead in Kabul by two gunmen on a motorbike as she walked to work, another attack for which the Taliban claimed responsibility...
...destitute living conditions in Nicaragua spurred both Borrás and fellow Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Angel Sáenz-Badillos to found Casas de la Esperanza. The nonprofit organization, which was started in Cambridge, offers aid to families living in the outskirts of Granada, Nicaragua, including the semi-urban community La Prusia, which is home to over 200 families. Many of these families face harsh living conditions, squatting in makeshift houses with dirt floors...
...ending in June 2008, outpacing industry benchmarks, but financial data from the past few months—which have seen some of the most precipitous economic declines in decades—have not been made available. Faust said that the primary concerns about the situation were that the financial aid needs of students whose families are challenged by the crisis might increase, and that the woes on Wall Street might depress fundraising. Harvard has been eyeing 2011 for the beginning of its next capital campaign, but University officials have said that the date may be pushed back if financial difficulties...
...hard to find. And why the U.S. military is hoping to replicate his achievements in a new mentoring program dubbed Focused District Development. In FDD, every officer in a single district is sent to one of four regional training centers where they are taught tactics, maneuvers, first aid and basic policing skills. They also learn about human rights and rule of law. One patrolman confided to his trainer that he never knew beating his wife was illegal...