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...from their home until he found a police truck to take them to a clinic several miles away. The doctor there urged the family to rush Harakatmo to Badakhshan's only hospital, in Faizabad, the provincial capital. Harakatmo's husband hired a ramshackle minivan for the journey--a five-hour ride along rutted dirt roads. On the way, they stopped while Harakatmo's mother-in-law delivered the baby. It was already dead; the tiny corpse was wrapped in a cloth and placed next to Harakatmo. Lying in the hospital that evening, she said she considered herself lucky. "When...
Even in Sierra Leone there are glimmers of hope. Aid organizations recently began training traditional birth attendants; several towns now demand that they deliver babies in clinics, where nurses can monitor their work. An hour east of Freetown, I visited a village where local elders had just passed a law requiring all women to give birth at a clinic or face fines of about $8--more than the clinic fee. And the World Bank, UNICEF and the British government's Department for International Development have agreed to jointly invest $262 million over the next three years to overhaul Sierra Leone...
...best kind of fashion show is called a "presentation." Instead of sitting down and waiting an hour for models to walk, you walk around to different rooms where models lounge around in gowns. It's like a Disney revue--the Country Bear Jamboree, except the bears are women who never eat and the jamboree consists of acting bored. When I exited, I asked if I could go again...
...went expecting the world’s greatest music festival and, in the face of these expectations, the festival could only come up short. Even my relatively low expectations—for simple things, like relatively accurate show times—were frustrated when Kanye went onstage over an hour late, due to an unnecessary collection of lights and glamour.Perhaps someday I will be able to attend this generation’s Woodstock. Existing in the space along the fringe of the crowd, the people whose culture we were trying to co-opt served as a reminder of my romanticized...
Becker noted that the intellectual intensity of the one-on-one tutorial could be daunting to some students faced with the prospect of two-hour conversations with their tutor...