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Despite the man-eating lore and the big headlines that follow attacks by tigers or lions that are kept as pets or performers, wild cats are generally able to live in close proximity to humans without disturbing them. Leopards are seen in the suburbs of Nairobi and Kampala. Mountain lions in Waterton, Alta., have been observed using the angles of buildings and even the beds of pickup trucks to conceal themselves when hunting. In the San Diego area, these animals tend to hang out within 100 yds. of trails used by hikers, though they are rarely noticed, according...
While working on these various projects, Nair divides her time primarily between New York, where her son Zohran attends school and her husband Mahmood Mamdani is a government professor at Columbia University, and her home in Kampala, Uganda, where Nair is an avid gardener. Her family also spends time in a home in New Delhi...
...stresses behavioral change before it does condom use. Over the past dozen years, it has been tremendously successful. “In Uganda,” the Washington Post reported last Wednesday, “AIDS prevalence fell for the 12th consecutive year. In the capital city, Kampala, the rate is 8 percent, compared with 30 percent a decade ago.” True, condoms became a greater part of Kampala’s approach in the mid-1990s, but this was after the HIV rate had already started to drop precipitously...
...Ugandan prison service has recently released a report that cites human urine as the key instrument used by 15 inmates to secure their escape from a prison outside of Kampala last April...
...opponents and rival ethnic groups that left as many as 500,000 dead. He also expelled tens of thousands of Asian traders, depriving Uganda of much of its business class. Amin was ousted at last in April 1979, after Tanzanian troops, responding to a Ugandan invasion, entered the capital, Kampala, and forced him to flee. --By Richard Lacayo...