Word: cameroons
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...Satisfying that desire is surprisingly easy. Though creams with hydroquinone have been banned for sale without a prescription in countries such as Kenya, South Africa and Cameroon, they remain widely available. A makeshift shopping bazaar on the top floor of a guesthouse in central Nairobi, for instance, has three stands selling hundreds of tubes of creams for between $1.30 and $2.50, most of them imported from Europe. There's IKB Skin Litener Cream, which boasts that it is "extra strength" and can be found in "London, Lagos, Paris and New York." There's Princess, Kiss, Jaribu (Swahili...
...prostitutes. Boys are forced to work on coffee or cocoa plantations or as fishermen. The problem hit the news over the past fortnight when a Nigerian-registered boat that Benin authorities and UNICEF said was carrying as many as 200 slave children was turned away from Gabon and Cameroon. When it arrived back in Benin a few days later, only 43 children and teenagers were onboard, some with their parents. "We don't have any notion of what really happened," says Alfred Ironside, a UNICEF spokesman. "Were the kids unloaded somewhere else? Were the authorities in Benin wrong? Is there...
...flickering and trance music pumping and sweaty Brazilians dancing. Tenda Raizes (by this point I've figured out that "tenda" probably means "tent") features various roots artists from around the world, from Varttina (a Finnish group with peppy female lead singers) to Heri Dikongue (a guitarist and singer from Cameroon). Tenda Brasil, another stage, is a showcase for up-and-coming young Brazilian acts as well as a few established masters. And finally, there's the main stage, Palco Munda, a huge white tent that looks like a daisy gone to seed or the back of an albino armadillo...
...women, defending gold medalists and world champions, beat Norway 2-0, but the ease with which they dispatched the normally tough Norwegians certainly made them gold-medal favorites. The American men were favored to go home early, and yet they fought the Czech Republic (2-2) and Cameroon (1-1) to draws and have a good shot at advancing to the medal round...
...women, defending gold medalists and world champions, beat Norway 2-0, but the ease with which they dispatched the normally tough Norwegians certainly made them gold-medal favorites. The American men were favored to go home early, and yet they fought the Czech Republic (2-2) and Cameroon (1-1) to draws and have a good shot at advancing to the medal round...