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...genocide, and cancer patients. Mahila Mandals are women’s groups in New Delhi, India, which Asha created, that educate and care for slum dwellers, providing individual healthcare and advocating for gender issues. Shift to Sudan and Burma, where the Genocide Intervention Network implements an on-the-ground program to protect civilians from attack in the midst of ongoing hostilities. Now fly back West and land in waiting rooms that double as playrooms, and a place where the ills of cancer contrast the elation of Disney paintings in the Jimmy Fund Clinic. We, as a student body, contributed...

Author: By Jason Y. Shah and Bianca A. Verma | Title: Taking a Stand | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...saddle. In terror, he grabbed for the horse's mane, but he couldn't get a firm grip. He tried to throw his arms around the horse's neck, but he began to slide down the side of the horse anyway as his head was being battered against the ground and he was moments away from unconsciousness, to his great fortune a Marine sergeant who was shopping at Wal-Mart saw him and quickly unplugged the horse." - Jones, who acknowledges he enjoys tales of rivalry among the nation's military services, while speaking to the Atlantic Council (Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Jones Jr. | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...grip of a cholera epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) says has claimed 412 lives and infected 9,908 people. South Africa's Sunday Times said 400 new cholera cases were arriving at a treatment center in the township of Budiriro every day. Aid groups on the ground - UNICEF, Medecins Sans Frontieres, German Agro Action and the WHO have between them set up 36 treatment centers - are working on a scenario of 10,000 deaths and 60,000 infected by next March. The outbreak began in the east of the country and now affects the entire eastern portion, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe's Latest Plague: Cholera | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

Undergraduate Council campaigning began today at 12:01 a.m., and some campaigns hit the ground running, holding meetings last night and then launching Web sites and postering the campus during the early morning hours...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Campaign for UC President Begins | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...attended a Sufi yoga class where the teacher played the daf (a Persian frame drum) and everyone chanted to the Shi'a Imam Ali. Many, like my mother, like to note the similarities between the physical sequence of Muslim prayer and asanas, claiming harmony, or at least fatwa-free ground, between Islam and yoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should a Pious Muslim Practice Yoga? | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

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