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...since it began in February 2003. First, rebel fighters attacked police stations in Tawila. In response, a government plane bombed the town, forcing dozens of aid workers to flee. To date, most of the violence, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left more than 2 million homeless, has been carried out by members of the Janjaweed, an Arab militia that has received financial and military support from the Sudanese government to quell an insurgency by the region's non-Arab Muslims...
...Americans think about TB at all, it is usually only in fearful association with drug addicts, the homeless or prison inmates. It is easy to forget that within living memory, tuberculosis was a major public-health problem in this country. Researchers, realizing that drug-resistant varieties are emerging from inadequate treatment both here and in other parts of the world, have launched the first North American vaccine trial in 60 years, using new formulas created with recombinant DNA technology. The results of the trial are eagerly awaited by public-health workers in the developing world, where TB kills nearly...
...simplifying isn't always so simple. What one couple decides may not sit well with extended family or with their kids (see box). Three years ago, Noelle Hawton of Bloomington, Minn., was driving to church on Christmas Eve with her husband and his family when they passed a homeless man digging a plate out of a Dumpster. "It made me think about how stupid it was to be stressed out over gifts that none of us really needed," Hawton recalls. That night, she and her in-laws had a long, emotional discussion and chose to stop exchanging gifts the following...
...available in the U.S. as an import at music chain stores and as a download from bandaid20.com) Proceeds will again help starving Africans, especially those in Sudan's Darfur region, where fighting between rebels and government-backed militias has left 70,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless in what Washington calls genocide. The new version of the song is mellower than the original, but the lyrics are the same: In Africa this Christmas, "the only water flowing/ Is the bitter sting of tears." Still...
Collecting trash from the street is no longer the lone province of garbage men and the homeless. Alex L. Pasternack’s obsession with trash has helped him acquire two fully functional fax machines (“Because, hey, you can always use an extra fax machine”), a collection of journals written in Japanese that may or may not have been from the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York and a large red shopping cart. He’s also gotten a thesis...