Word: ethiopia
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...Africa hasn't seen a celebrity road show like this one since Stanley met Livingstone. The world's most powerful finance minister and one of the world's biggest rock stars are on a grueling, 10-day race through Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia that will bring them face to face with grinding poverty in a region home to 70% of the world's cases of AIDS as well as controversial development projects designed to alleviate the suffering. Flying on a chartered jet known as "Great Expectations" when George W. Bush used it as a campaign plane, the unlikely...
...need to explore. Still, I’m a bit apprehensive, naturally, about the people I’ll be leaving behind, at least for the moment. There’s the impending breakup of the Fab Four—my three best friends from China, Ethiopia and Vietnam whom I’ve been with since fourth grade. There’s Mama, and my little sister, and my dad. And soon there will be no more Harvard, either. For a person who cares too much and wants to do everything, even when slowing down, Bob Dylan, my favorite...
...part of what makes it difficult to maintain security within Israel—it is not clear who is friend or foe just by looking. Moreover, it’s just untrue that all Israeli soldiers are white. Hailing from across the world—with immigrants from Ethiopia and Morocco, from the Former Soviet Union and India, Israel has one of the most diverse armies in the world. Arab Druze are Israeli citizens who serve in the army as well—are they to be accused of racial discrimination...
...There are no more camel caravans from Damascus or leaky boat journeys a la Lord Jim. Only pilgrims from Red Sea ports in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen are allowed to come to the Hajj in ships. The rest, about 80%, arrive by air at a massive terminal near Jeddah. Saudi authorities are always keen to pick out drug smugglers and thieves; this year they are more determined than ever to prevent any terrorists from slipping in. (In 1987, Iranian pilgrims went on an anti-U.S. riot that caused more than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing...
...Live Aid, Bob Geldof's Ethiopian famine-relief efforts. While many of Live Aid's participants played their sets and moved on to the next cause, Bono and his wife Alison Stewart decided to find out just how bad the African famine was. They traveled to Wello, Ethiopia, and spent six weeks working at an orphanage. "You'd wake up in the morning, and mist would be lifting," Bono recalls. "You'd walk out of your tent, and you'd count bodies of dead and abandoned children. Or worse, the father of a child would walk...