Word: camped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the tents and chain-link fences of the Stenkovec camp for Kosovar refugees a few weeks ago, Richard Gere wasn't too hard to spot. "Who is this coming?" asked refugee Hatixhe Ajeti when she saw him. "Oh, a famous actor. Too bad. What I need is a doctor...
...looking after some 750,000 displaced Kosovars now under the alliance's care in the Serbian border regions of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina: plenty of tents and blankets, food and water, and even battery chargers for cell phones so that refugees can contact their relatives. In some camps, makeshift convenience stores have sprung up, selling soda, meat pies and other homelike conveniences at affordable Balkan prices. But as international aid workers fight traditional camp scourges such as cholera and dysentery, they are also starting to gripe about another epidemic, one peculiar to the age of the televised...
...friends would say the prayers were answered. Converted at a Christian summer camp, Cassie was soon working with inner-city gang members, attending Bible study and wearing a WHAT WOULD JESUS DO bracelet; she thought about cutting off her long blond hair, so she could give it to a charity that makes wigs for kids undergoing cancer treatment. The day after she died, her brother found a poem that suggested she was already on her journey "to find out what it really means to suffer and to die with Him." Her mother was in the shower a few days later...
...worked in the booming telecommunications industry before heading for her M.B.A. Upon graduation from Fuqua, she interviewed with MCI and SkyTel. "But I wanted something that reflected my priorities, and I didn't see that in the corporate world," Estes says. She eventually became coordinator of a summer camp devoted to teaching girls about economic independence, putting some of her organizational know-how to work for nonprofits. "I love what I do," Estes says. "It's flexible, and I can see that I'm doing good...
...professor of German at Montclair State University in New Jersey and the wife of Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and current challenger for the White House. Later Schlant learned that less than two miles from Passau, hundreds of civilian prisoners were being worked to death at a slave-labor camp--a detail that never came up in polite conversation...