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According to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, the intruder then shut the door on the officers and fled into the room after throwing the laptop...
...Shuwetij is one of a shrinking number of doctors who remain in Iraq. Thousands of physicians have fled the unrelenting violence in Iraq, where militants have murdered hundreds of doctors in recent years. The World Health Organization estimates that Iraq has less than seven doctors per 10,000 people. In neighboring Jordan, where many Iraqis have resettled, the number of physicians per person is more than double that, with at least two doctors per 1,000 people. Iraq's health care infrastructure is crumbling, too. Iraq's health ministry has estimated that nearly 90% of the country's medical facilities...
...olds vaccinated against polio and other easily preventable diseases. But on the whole, the health care picture in Iraq remains bleak. Hospitals like Shuwetij's face chronic shortages as medicine and supplies. And of course the doctors keep leaving. Shuwetij says 10 of the doctors on his staff have fled Iraq in recent years after getting threats. The remaining doctors at the hospital, which has about 200 beds, often will not work overnight shifts because the neighborhood is unsafe. At night, Shuwetij usually hears the sound of gunfire close by, and mortars have fallen near the hospital grounds. Shuwetij...
Kropotkin was an aristocrat who, after being imprisoned for his insurrectionist activities, escaped and fled to England in 1876. He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic. More to the point, he proposed in his 1902 book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, that the survival of animal species and much of human progress depended on the tendency to help others...
Where in the world is Moqtada al-Sadr? He hasn't been seen in public in several weeks, and he has not kept up his usual practice of leading Friday prayers at the Great Mosque in Kufa. Now U.S. officials are claiming the firebrand anti-American cleric fled to Iran two or three weeks ago, along with several commanders of his dreaded Mahdi Army militia. But senior Sadr officials in Baghdad have dismissed those claims as propaganda, and maintain he is still in his Najaf headquarters...