Word: ethiopia
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...doesn't help; it can lead to what doctors call fecal-oral contamination. "Toddlers will always pick up things and put them into their mouths and, if you don't have a clean environment, that can lead to diarrhea," says Therese Dooley, until recently a unicef project officer in Ethiopia. Infection triggers a cascade of events that can cause diarrhea, if left untreated, to escalate from an unpleasant experience to a life-threatening condition. Normally, 50-75% of the human body is water. The small intestine serves as its key pumping station, absorbing water and nutrients through its walls. There...
...million Age, in years, of a girl's skeleton-thought to be the oldest remains ever found of a child-recently unearthed in Ethiopia 150,000 Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth
...million Age, in years, of a skeleton of a 3-year-old girl recently unearthed in Ethiopia. The remains are thought to be the oldest ever found of a child...
...decision was engineered by European and developing countries who worry that Wolfowitz has become obsessed with corruption to the exclusion of other issues. They were angry last year when Wolfowitz suspended $1 billion worth of projects in Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, India and Kenya because of corruption. The funding resumed after countries agreed to implement anti-graft safeguards - measures that Wolfowitz's critics called window dressing...
...reinforced over the years when Raśl ordered the death, imprisonment or ouster from the Communist Party of a long line of dissidents and potential rivals. As Defense Minister, Raśl, with Moscow's backing, built a 150,000-strong disciplined military that was tested in conflicts in Angola and Ethiopia. After the Soviet collapse brought an end to aid that had sustained Cuba, a pragmatic Raśl turned the much diminished army into a pioneer of free enterprise, managing the government's stakes in agriculture, industry and, now especially, tourism. Those reforms have provoked speculation that as President, Raśl, 75, would...