Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They were both foreign-born--Tadesse in Ethiopia and Ho in Vietnam. Both were 20 years old, concentrated in biology and wanted to become doctors...
...International Community School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Tadesse attended high school, she was known as a stellar student. She was president of the student government and on the staff of the yearbook...
...though becoming a victim, and unfortunately, Tadesse didn't have much going for her in that department. She was on a full scholarship to one of the world's most prestigious universities, en route to a career in medicine. She was a graduate of an international school in Ethiopia, and, let's face it, in one of the worlds' poorest countries only the wealthiest of families could possibly have afforded to send a daughter there...
...walk upright? Scientists believe this transformation probably occurred between 4 million and 6 million years ago, but until recently they had no fossils to back up their hypothesis. In 1994 researchers reported that they had found teeth and other fragments of a 4.4 million-year-old hominid in Ethiopia. But without key bones from below the waist, they could not say for sure how the animal moved...
...Reagan was fighting the war in Panama for the democratic rights of those people and against human rights violations, why did he choose not to send American soldiers to Ethiopia, where yet another military dictator was abusing the basic human rights of many and causing a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians? The examples of abusive human rights practices by petty dictators from all over the world are endless. The reason why the United States became involved in Panama, it can at least be conjectured, is because the political instablity that General Noriega represented was too great...