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...It’s really about building their cultural capital,” Mead said. “One of those habits they’re learning this summer might be the hook on their college applications later down the line...
...true in the traffic section. If you help spring a murderer, you're going to feel a heavy psychological burden. But if you help a friend beat a traffic fine, you feel nothing." The Beijing cop says most policemen he knows have helped get friends or acquaintances off the hook for traffic violations. "It's become part of our culture," Liu says. "China has plenty of laws. It's the enforcement that's lacking...
...comply. "Because should we fail to do so, we know our enemies would not hesitate to take other measures against our country," said Osman al Sayed, Sudan's ambassador to the African Union. But aid groups say that the watered-down resolution has let Khartoum off the hook. Relief workers in Darfur say 2.2 million people need food or medical treatment. Rains have turned overcrowded camps into muddy open sewers, increased the threat of disease, and complicated the distribution of emergency food in the region and in neighboring Chad, where 200,000 people have taken refuge. "We need to stop...
...officers search for further evidence in the bilge water and interview the fishermen about their voyage. They also try to explain to the detainees - skinny boys and craggy grandfathers who live on fish and a cup of rice a day - what will happen to them. Cummins wants to hook up with Quarantine officials on Thursday Island before they call it a day. Otherwise, the ACV crew will be babysitting the detainees in the harbor until the morning - a hassle, and also a bureaucratic drag on a $A5 million asset and a highly skilled crew that is supposed...
...Lancet last June reported that the death rate due to malaria has at least doubled among children in eastern and southern Africa; some rural areas have seen a heartbreaking 11-fold jump in mortality. "The death rates from malaria are as high as those from HIV," says Dr. Christa Hook, coordinator of the malaria working group for Doctors Without Borders. "In many ways, it's a kind of silent Holocaust...