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...which sits close to the Zambian border about 112 miles west of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe. Poor and uneducated, Banda tends a patch of maize and a vegetable garden and every now and again gets a job reworking scrap metal. When his wife Malita Lungu, a Zambian who gave birth to David across the border in her native country, died just a week after David was born, Banda struggled to raise his son with the help of relatives and friends. But a month later he sent David to the orphanage where Madonna would later find him. TIME reporter Peter Kumwenda...
...salient point of the special report is that, unlike Europe and Japan, the U.S. is still growing at a healthy clip. The reason we are still growing is that our immigrants and naturalized citizens are the one part of the population with a birth rate that is more than replacing itself. Half of all the population growth in America is occurring among Hispanics. With immigration becoming such a pivotal issue, people need to remember that in a very real sense immigration is what keeps us growing and helps invigorate our society in myriad ways...
...resigned, and I. King Jordan became Gallaudet's first deaf leader. But now Jordan is leaving, and the appointment of his replacement has ignited a new round of protests that lack all the moral clarity of 1988. That's because Jane Fernandes, the incoming president, has been deaf since birth. The question is, How deaf...
...come as no surprise to anyone that chimps and gorillas share our ability to communicate, our need for social bonding and our capacity to feel joy and sadness. What should also be apparent is that these intelligent, sensitive creatures deserve to be treated as such and not taken at birth from their parents, kept confined in isolation their whole lives and used for painful experiments...
...Iran's Caesarean Section Craze Well-accustomed to elective surgery, Iranian women are choosing C-sections at such a high rate that it's a challenge now to find a doctor who will perform a "medieval" vaginal birth...