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...Nightmare Does Nestlé know it's Christmas? The Swiss food behemoth (net profit last year: $4.69 billion) decided to pursue a $6 million claim against the government of Ethiopia for a 27-year-old suit, at a time of year when people are supposed to be focusing on the less fortunate. Company spokesman François Perroud found himself facing irate BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys: "You're going to get this money whether people starve or not." Replied Perroud: "I can't quite understand your hostility." Humphrys: "There are starving people in Ethiopia, that's where...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...other end of the spectrum, in countries like Ethiopia where AIDS affects large portions of the population, reduced coffee revenues are leading to cuts in public health spending...
Meanwhile, in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, the Global Children's Organization sponsors a similar camp, Turning Neighbors into Friends, for refugee children from such countries as Iran, Afghanistan, Colombia, Ukraine and Ethiopia who have come to the U.S. with their families. "We teach children that conflict is inevitable, but violence isn't," says Judith Jenya, who founded the G.C.O. 10 years ago. Can just two weeks have an effect on a child's life? "You bet," says Jenya. "Kids require air, water and hope...
...said U2's singer, "just a bigger brain." The modest rocker, who has lent sparkle to the cause of African poverty relief, brought O'Neill on a 10-day fact-finding journey that started last week in Ghana. The unlikely pair will travel through South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. O'Neill played the straight man; Bono did comic relief. O'Neill drilled vendors on their moneymaking to figure out how U.S. aid might help, while Bono strode up to a merchant selling psychedelic tie-dyed textiles and asked, "Have you ever heard of Jerry Garcia?" By the time the trip...