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...physician I serve people who otherwise would not have had access to care, ” Farmer said...
...press conference yesterday, Teresa Heinz announced that Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul E. Farmer and Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation John D. “Jack” Spengler will be among six national recipients of the ninth annual Heinz Award...
...Farmer, who will receive the human condition award, co-founded Partners in Health (PIH), a not-for-profit organization that has established health clinics in impoverished areas throughout the Americas and Eastern Europe...
...Iraqi military from Kuwait. A sand barrier and trench constructed by Kuwait after the Gulf War to prevent infiltrators from crossing over now separates Iraq from Kuwait, and beyond it are the massing ranks of the invasion force. As he peers into the distance in the midday haze, vegetable farmer Shadat Dafeh Hamed mumbles, "I can't see them, but I know they are there." Hamed, 70, lives closer to the enemy than any other Iraqi. His mud-and-concrete house is scarcely 500 yards from the ridge; his village, Khardeh (pop. 280), adjoins the border post of Safwan, where...
...Iraqis see things differently. An irate poultry-farmer and an outraged Muslim cleric last week denounced the inspections, claiming that their civil and religious rights had been violated. Anwar Mohammad, 59, said that the inspectors looking for biological weapons insisted on breaking open a sealed warehouse containing obsolete equipment. They found nothing, and now Mohammad is demanding "material and moral compensation from the UN," and an apology to him and his country. One scientist has already gone public with accusations of bribery and rudeness. When the inspectors visited 55-year-old Faleh Hassan's home in a posh Baghdad suburb...