Word: armfuls
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...realistic optimism. Delight is neither as optimistic as his grandfather was at independence nor as pessimistic as his mother. His generation has lived through the time of the Rwandan genocide, in which Hutu militias killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus; the brutality of Sierra Leone, with its arm-chopping gangs of child soldiers; the elemental fighting in Congo, beginning in the mid-'90s, known as Africa's First World War, a series of conflicts that killed 4 million people. But he and the millions of young Africans like him also have the incredible leadership of Nelson Mandela...
...knew why the gusto had gone out of the nurse's voice. One of the patient's arms was horribly broken and bent at an ungodly angle. She had just started a large-bore IV in the other. And while her big fat needle pierced him three or four times before it found blood, this stolid 60-year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound. His face hadn't registered a flicker of pain, his arm stayed still, even his hand remained limp. No reaction to this needle torture promised an unsatisfying...
...This will make it easier for me to get the arm straight, OK?" I said to Jacob...
...Thank you doctor" came out as the cast hardened. I gave him his instructions. He did everything perfectly - including taking the pain prescription the way I told him to - every six hours for the first 24. And his arm healed and he went back to work...
...parents and their wallets on board will be another matter. Under the current pricing plan, calls are 10 cents a minute, while texting is a bargain at 5 cents. Kajeet recognizes that it'll be kids themselves, rather than adult-focused advertising, who will be the most effective arm-twisters. "I wouldn't be bugging my parents so much when I'm bored," said Derrick. "My parents would be happy that I don't have to borrow their phones anymore," said Nick, 11, gleeful as he casually set the phone's calendar alert to remind him of his birthday until...