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China may finally be coming clean about its burgeoning AIDS problem, but health officials in the ravaged province of Henan are still behaving as if the epidemic were a dirty secret. Last month, more than 100 armed police stormed the NGO-run Orchid Orphan School in the city of Shangqiu, a boarding school for AIDS orphans (some of whom are HIV-positive), and whisked the students away on a truck. Two volunteers were detained for "causing social disorder." The local health bureau says the school was closed because it never applied for an operating license. But school founder...
...budget and not to feel deprived because of it. And the other thing that I know, which is a great comfort to me, is how happy I can be, for instance, in Africa, in the bush, treating patients as I used to, helping my dad, sleeping in very clean but simple comfort, without any material appendages. I know I can be happy doing that...
...Service there. He is taking advantage of a long-simmering perception among Fatah chiefs that Arafat has no intention of getting the Palestinians out of their present diplomatic dead end, even as the prospects for a Palestinian state seem ever more distant. "We warned Arafat two years ago to clean his house," says a senior Fatah official. The official says Arafat is in no immediate danger of being ousted, but the escalating campaign against him could be laying the foundation for someone to edge him aside. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad
...don’t know how to clean and gut a fish anyway so it’s just as well, I think, although I’ve wasted the remaining light sticking rusty hooks through not-pinned-into-place worms and now face the prospect of starting a fire in the dark, unless I can get the kerosene lamp started. (Booker had given me a demonstration about how to use it. “You see? Vis and you pull vis and turn vis. Eezy. Got it?” I didn?...
Determined, I try again, getting it going for a good three hours while I cook, eat and clean after my dinner (plain pasta boiled with garlic and peanut butter spread over my four remaining meusli bars—mmm!). I manage in the process to go through not only every log in the hut but every stick, twig or leaf in a 10-meter area outside...