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But unlike so many of the Ugandan children abducted near their homes and schools - tens of thousands of them in total during the nearly 20 years of conflict that still wracks this small east African country - Ojok made a stunning escape. In 2000, four years after he was stolen away...
The challenges are also many for the displaced people waiting to return to their land. Even after security is assured, they will need to repair damage caused by years of neglect. Razed homes, schools, and hospitals need to be rebuilt, and landmines must be removed. But peace talks, at least...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—I love the Fung Wah Bus.You’d find that hard to believe if you knew my history with the discount New York-to-Boston bus line. I’ve spent an entire trip sitting in front of a drug dealer who...
In the pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along...
(2 of 3) Were Cervantes ever to sail his boat around the Mediterranean's 46,000-km coastline, he would hear similar tales in languages from Arabic to Italian. The 22 countries that border the Med face a battle over resources that raises a stark question: To what extent can...