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...Cambodia, he is "humbled to the ground" by the story of Phaly Nuon, forced to watch as her 12-year-old daughter was gang-raped and murdered by the Khmer Rouge. She came through the darkness by "forgetting, loving, working" and now helps others do the same. He visits Greenland, where depression affects as much as 80% of the population. Yet the Inuits' taboo against "being a cloud in the sky for other people" prevents them from seeking help. Solomon's tales of suffering among America's poor, where depression occurs three times as often as among the general population...
...time, the campus relaxed. Minch had retreated to his hometown of Greenland, N.H. Recalls Darlene Prickett of the Gallaudet publicity office: "Most people felt that with him gone, things could start going back to normal." Accordingly, on Feb. 2 the Phi Kappa Zeta sorority threw a party, open to all, at a downtown establishment called the Diva Club. "We don't care what kind of music it is, as long as the bass is going, the rhythm," says junior Rebecca Goldenbaum. It was the first big bash of the new semester. Like many of the revelers, junior Jason Lamberton straggled...
...through Northeastern lumberyards, acting as their American liaison and interpreter, Egashira takes what money he has made and heads off to the seldom traveled sectors of the globe. He has successfully completed a 100-mile solo hike in the Rocky Mountains, a trip to the Arctic and one to Greenland...
...With the help of some drugs and a miraculously resilient faith, Egashira is living for today and planning for tomorrow. He is currently working on a photo montage and travel article on Greenland...
...RUSSIA Seal Cubs Face Mass Starvation Freak weather has stranded hundreds of thousands of baby seals on ice floes in the White Sea. Russian scientists said that unusually strong winds had prevented up to 200,000 baby harp, or Greenland, seals from floating to their normal feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. "Their mass death from hunger is inevitable," said a Polar Institute scientist, adding that even if some cubs could be saved, no money was available for their rescue...