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...which at a minimum means a pit latrine. Most Ethiopians don't make the connection between the way they dispose of human waste and their family's health; instead, they believe that "diseases are transmitted by the will of God," says Worku Fentahun, head of health for the Banja district in the country's north. As a consequence, the average Ethiopian child suffers five to 12 episodes of diarrhea a year. Based on studies by the country's government and the World Bank, and by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, between 50,000 and 112,000 Ethiopian children under...
...worked ... I told them what I had learned and they listened and then went home and built their own toilets." More than 25,000 households joined the latrine-building boom in just three years. The number of people with access to a latrine in Banja district rose to 86% today from 3% in 2001. Toilets became status symbols. "Some people are building latrines nicer than their houses," says Gabeyew Tarekegn, who lives in a nearby village. Worku says that his children have been sick less often since the family began using the latrine and washing their hands afterward...
...Governor Jim McGreevey's line "I am a gay American." But the most relevant fact about Foley was not that he is gay--it's that he spent a lifetime hiding it. True, in recent years the Congressman was seen in the company of a male dermatologist in his district. Even so, in 2003 Foley revealed the deep shame he felt about his homosexuality when he called the rumor mill about his gay life "revolting." "My mother and father raised me ... to believe there are certain things we shouldn't discuss in public," he said then. "Some...
...fueling a domestic assault case where the victim urged prosecutors to drop charges, and friends, teammates—and the victim herself—rejected police’s version of the events.Yet, the prosecution charged ahead.Last Wednesday, just two days before the case was scheduled for trial, Cambridge District Court Judge George R. Sprague ’60 dismissed it, against the objections of the prosecutor. After months of speculation and rumor, it was finally over.On the cusp of graduation, the class of 2006 revelled in their last night together at the Senior Soiree. On that warm June evening...
With the voting for Undergraduate Council seats set to close today, many districts will witness their fair share of crossed fingers and frayed nerves. But nowhere will disappointment be as prevalent as in the freshman yards. With 78 candidates for eight UC seats, a mere 10.3 percent of first-year hopefuls will see their campaigns end in triumph, as compared to over 50 percent for their upper-class counterparts. To students only months removed from the college admissions rat-race, those odds might seem uncannily familiar. “Sounds like they’re trying to get into Harvard...