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...That's welcome news to groups such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) which provides prosthetics and helps rehabilitate land mine victims and other disabled Afghans. Tens of thousands of mine victims will need health care and assistance for the rest of their lives, and there has been a chronic lack of resources to meet those needs. Opened in 1988 at the height of the war against the Soviet Union, the organization's Afghanistan orthopedic programs have treated more than 76,000. But they don't stop at giving people prosthetic limbs. The ICRC's Ali Abad...
...team responded immediately. A minute after Coleman’s three, the Crimson worked the ball around the zone, spreading the Wolverines defense. A cross-court pass by Lin found McGeary in the corner and the transfer buried the biggest three of his young Crimson career to knot the game...
Think Hollywood, and sustainability may not be the first word to cross your mind. Porsches and private jets, Cristal and cocaine, the entertainment industry has been the embodiment of American overconsumption, and its chief sales agent to the rest of the country. Recycling? That was for plot lines. But side-by-side with that image of excess is Hollywood the dyed-blue liberal, the city that gave Al Gore an Oscar before he won that Nobel, where solar panels and Priuses are the new must-have toys, and someone actually thought global warming would make for a good action movie...
...Obama's interracial background puts him at cross purposes. It gives him a racelessness that is politically appealing to whites, but it also draws him toward precisely the kind of self-conscious black identity that alienates whites. For nearly two decades Barack Obama has attended a black church on the South Side of Chicago that his own mother could never have felt comfortable in. It subscribes to a "Black Value System" in which "black" was always the operative word--"black family," "black community," "black freedom," etc. But it was not a black value system that accounted for Obama's success...
...combine traditional music with artistic growth. In 2005, it came to Harvard to begin its five-year residency and partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Each year-since then, the group has staged a series of lectures, workshops, and performances to work with students and faculty on cross-cultural development through music.According to Laura Freid, CEO and Executive Director of the Silk Road Project, Inc., the inspiration to showcase “Layla and Majnun” came from a meeting with Qasimov while the group was in Azerbaijan. He and his daughter Fargana Qasimova later joined...