Word: banda
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After spending a month volunteering with the Department of Defense and Project Hope in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 42 employees from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital—returned this past weekend from the tsunami-stricken region...
Another participant, Sidney S. Cash, said he was touched by the “unbelievable character” of the director of the Banda Aceh hospital, who lost his entire family in the tidal wave, but returned to the devastated hospital the next day in hopes of helping his patients...
...Islamic radicals?especially those in Indonesia?who think it's cool to attack Western interests and die for their beliefs should seriously rethink their priorities. The people who are providing much of the aid to Indonesia's devastated Banda Aceh are not the Arabs with their petrodollars or Osama bin Laden with his inherited millions but the Australians, Germans, Japanese and Americans. To terrorist sympathizers and hard-line radicals in South Asia, I pose this question: Where are your terrorist friends when you need them most? Tim F. Peters Kuala Lumpur...
...what get prominent coverage by the press. Chandy John Bangalore, India Islamic radicals-especially those in Indonesia-who think it's cool to attack Western interests and die for their beliefs should seriously rethink their priorities. The people who are providing much of the aid to Indonesia's devastated Banda Aceh are not the Arabs with their petrodollars or Osama bin Laden with his inherited millions but the Australians, Germans, Japanese and Americans. To terrorist sympathizers and hard-line radicals in South Asia, I pose this question: Where are your terrorist friends when you need them most? Tim F. Peters...
...Market price, before the tsunami, to rent a house with indoor plumbing in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for one month...