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...steep track 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...Journey with me to the sepia-toned days of fall 2007. An innocent nation grappled with the news that Dumbledore was gay. Hillary Clinton girded for her inevitable presidential race against Rudy Giuliani. And the networks, after launching a roster of fall shows to anemic ratings, were hit by a three-month-long writers' strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New TV Series — Last Year's Strike Victims — Get a Do-Over | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

They lauded Palmer’s journey as a paragon of the creativity, courage, and personal responsibility that each individual will have to shoulder in order to combat climate change...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renewable Energy Car Featured at Solartaxi Luncheon | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

Over the course of his 18-month journey, the Solartaxi has accrued a considerable following, attracting the attention of media and luminaries from around the world. Palmer has chauffeured various guests, from Jay Leno in Los Angeles to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in Bali to the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renewable Energy Car Featured at Solartaxi Luncheon | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...World.” That trip was a spiritual, emotional, and physical death for many of its passengers, and its goal was to sever Africans’ ties with their former lives and render them vulnerable at the hands of Europeans. Now, the journey could not be more different: it is easy, fast, and completely voluntary. Only several accounts of the Middle Passage from the perspectives of the enslaved exist because of illiteracy and imprisonment With this dearth of information, it is easy to see how such a “culture of silence”—whatever...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Hearing a Culture of Silence | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

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