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...before being logged in. Cambodian cleaning women stripped the mission of at least 10 computers before they were caught. The wait for official supplies of pens and paper drove desperate staff members to the local market. "When we start up in a new place, everything is wrong," says Denis Beissel, acting director of the U.N.'s Field Operations Division. "I don't have enough of anything to respond quickly. No staff, no stock, no money...
...pious German named Johann Conrad Beissel emigrated to Pennsylvania, gathered about him a small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., he built a big three-story cloister which he named "The Sharon." Into this cloister with his male & female followers he retired to pursue the spiritual ideal of the "Woman of the Wilderness." Changing his name to Father Friedsam "The Peaceful," Beissel was the first prior of the Ephrata Community.* He was followed by big Peter Miller, called "Jabez." The community grew to 300. After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed...
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