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...stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother frantically tried to keep him breathing. When Seaman bent down to get closer, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on her ankles and arms in an African feeding frenzy. Ignoring her own discomfort, she prepared an IV, but the boy's blood pressure was so low and his arms so thin that she could not find a vein...
With a Nuer nurse holding the boy tightly, Seaman jabbed the IV into his arm and then, dissatisfied, pulled it out. "It's not right," she explained. The boy writhed in agony. Calmly, she inserted the needle four or five times more before she was finally sure that she had it right. At 2 a.m. she ducked back into the boy's hut to give him more medicine. In the morning, astonishingly, he was alive and smiling. The Nuer mother beamed at Seaman, and then she was gone. Seaman sat down at the camp table outside her tent, poured herself...
Concilio Latino, President; Latinas Unidas, Board Member; La Organization Estudiantil Boricua, Co-Chairperson; Area IV youth Center, tutor...
...October 1997--about a month from now--and a Titan IV rocket has just lifted off the pad at Cape Canaveral. Perched on top is the Cassini spacecraft, one of the most ambitious probes NASA has ever launched. If the mission goes as planned, Cassini will reach Saturn in 2004 and spend the next four years exploring the giant ringed planet and most of its 18 icy moons...
Another proctor, Carl Stan McGee, is a third-year student at the Law school. A Rhodes Scholar who lived in France for a year, he resides in Mower with his partner John H. Finely IV '92, whose grandfather was master of Eliot House...