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...earlier version of the April 7 news article "Faust Asks For Help in Classics" incorrectly stated that Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas "provided the full translation" of a Latin phrase. In fact, Thomas simply approved of University President Drew G. Faust's translation and did not actually provide a translation, according to Thomas...
...Suddenly a van appears and Iraqis hop out to help the man. The helicopter crew seeks and receives permission to fire on the vehicle. In the ensuing barrage, two children inside the vehicle are apparently wounded, and their father, a Good Samaritan who had stopped to take the wounded man to the hospital, is allegedly killed. When U.S. ground troops arrive later, they discover the youngsters. "Well, it's their fault," a member of the Apache crew says, "for bringing kids into a battle." Initially, the U.S. said the dead were all insurgents and had been killed in battle...
...With the help of village headmen, Ekjut handpicked women who were paid and trained to facilitate the discussions or gather data on community births and neonatal deaths. Facilitators were required to be mobile and speak two or more local languages - prepared, in other words, to bicycle from village to village and sit in on sessions. Group meetings are informal, and usually open with village gossip. Goats tied with rope to trees bleat in frustration; children squirm in their mothers' sari-covered laps. The facilitator begins with a story related to a local concern, perhaps about a pregnant girl with malaria...
...part of a three-year trial (2005 to 2008). A similar project in the mountainous Makwanpur region of Nepal, where health facilities can easily be a six-hour walk away, required the Institute to organize local women into groups. In east India, it rallied an existing structure of "self-help groups," a national network of rural microfinance intermediaries typically composed of 10 to 15 women who contribute small savings to a common fund until they have enough to begin lending. As part of the trial, the groups were asked to replace talk of business with babies, and open meetings...
...Teaming up with the government should also help keep the neonatal death rate in participating districts down. But since the release of the results, no one seems very concerned about numbers. Health workers come and go; now that these women have a hold on the basics, they aren't likely to forget them fast. "Once the numbers go down," Costello says, "they don't come back up again...