Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The British colony is not alone in suffering from what refugee workers call compassion fatigue. Over the past decade, the world's refugee population has ballooned from 4.6 million to almost 14.5 million. Many of the displaced have fled civil strife and hope to go home someday, like the 6...
What happened to the promise of Marion Barry, the fire-snorting civil rights leader? Some say the promise never existed, that all along he was an opportunist obsessed with power. Others shrug and wonder if he simply traded in his civil rights merit badges for the good life. Perhaps the...
With compassion for the Vietnamese boat people nearly exhausted after an exodus that began in 1975, last week's Geneva conference on Indochinese refugees produced a unanimous vote to adopt a tough new policy.
For researchers the most urgent need may be to regain control of studies being conducted to test the efficacy of various AIDS drugs. Now that doctors have medications that work, they need to find what works best. But for the past several years, experimental drugs have first been available on...
By the 1830s, the prosperous Cherokee farmers of North Carolina and Georgia had leaders educated in white universities and a written constitution recognized by the U.S. But they stood in the way of white expansion, so they were driven from their homes and herded along what came to be called...