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HIID's greatest long-term success story comes from its efforts in Indonesia, Romer says. The institute has been working in the Pacific Rim nation since the 1960s and has seen a dramatic turnaround in Indonesia's economic infrastructure...
...month after Franklin was born again, a Graham friend named Bob Pierce who ran an international-aid mission invited him on a remarkable two-month tour of the Far East that included China, Indonesia and India, with its "hundreds of millions of people," as Franklin writes, "locked in the darkness of Hinduism...bound by Satan's power." The combination of small planes and benighted heathens proved irresistible to a man whose maternal grandparents had been missionaries to China. Pierce died of leukemia three years later, and Franklin, who by then had graduated from college, married and become a father, took...
...focusing so much attention on these murdered white, middle-class children while all but ignoring the equally unthinkable deaths of other youngsters: the street children of Rio de Janeiro, periodically murdered by authorities and vigilantes when their numbers grow too large; the child sex workers of Thailand and Indonesia, who die slow and painful deaths when they are infected with aids or addicted to drugs; the uncounted thousands of children of Rwanda, hacked to pieces for being Hutu or Tutsi. These children were murdered by monsters every bit as scary as the psychotic who killed the Dunblane children. But because...
...have students from Australia, Indonesia, Japan--every continent but Antarctica," said Sanjay Shetty '96, the secretary-general of this year's conference...
...used it. In the end, Sun decided that the best thing it could do for Oak was to give it a new name and give it away. So Sun called it Java--a slang term for coffee that dates back to the days when the best brews came from Indonesia, not Seattle--and made it available, free of charge, on the Internet...