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...medical bills. They raised her mortgage principal to far more than the house is now worth in the housing bust. Her mortgage interest has since adjusted up sharply, and she's saddled with monthly payments that eat up more than 50% of her income, and which she has already fallen behind...
Ismail had fallen afoul of an Israeli border policy, quietly begun in June, that bars foreigners who say they are visiting the Palestinian Authority from entering Israel. Israel says the visa helps to exclude visitors who threaten security. According to Israeli Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad, the procedure is based on an unpublished 2006 decision by the Israeli interior and defense ministers that "any foreign national who wants to enter the Palestinian Authority must have a permit issued by the army, and entry is permitted only into PA territory." (Read a story about Mike Huckabee's visit to Israeli settlements...
...doesn't have to go far to find that. In Morola, a village of some 500 people nestled among mango trees near the Guinea border, locals say that diarrhea deaths have fallen sharply since zinc tablets were distributed last year. When I visited in May, the village chief gathered five women together to talk about their lives. The group had lost seven children between them, four to diarrhea. Kinza Diallo, 29, says that when her 1-year-old daughter contracted diarrhea in 2004, she clutched her on the back of a motorbike for the hour's ride to the nearest...
...English governesses, big-game hunting and finishing school in Switzerland. Her mother, a daring socialite in her own right, disapproved of Devi's joining the orthodox royal house of Jaipur, whose women lived in purdah--hidden from the gaze of men outside their families. But Devi had already fallen in love with the jet-setting, polo-playing maharaja, and she soon made Jaipur her own. She started an élite girls' school, correctly surmising that it would help end the practice of purdah, and entered politics as a passionate opponent of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's socialist policies...
...miracle, that this statue can bring together all Sri Lankans - that is the hope it gives these people." As the statue was paraded around the compound, many worshippers wept openly. Fathers lifted their young children on their shoulders to show them the statue, while smaller kids who had fallen asleep during the three-hour mass were hurriedly awoken to stare drowsily as the compound reverberated to tens of thousands of voices singing "Ave Maria...