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...Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon Reporters: Sinting Lai, Lawrence Mondi, Megan Rutherford, Sribala Subramanian Art: Jane Frey (Senior Associate Director); James Elsis (Associate Director); Nomi Silverman (Assistant Art Director); Victoria Nightingale (Designer) Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors) Makeup: Eugene F. Coyle (Chief); Alison E. Ruffley, Leonard Schulman Administration: Helga Halaki, Barbara Milberg...
...Professor Gates is a prodigious recruiter,” says Karen C.C. Dalton, the current Assistant Director of the Du Bois Institute. “We’re incredibly fortunate to be able to attract really top-flight people, and in the end, when you’ve got great minds and great energy, good things happen...
...looking for a case study in how a government can fail the health needs of its people, Burma is a good place to start. The seeds of the country's problems were sown long ago, and Maung, 45, knows them well. A member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority, which has fought a simmering half-century war for independence, she grew up in a region that had never been quite at peace. She kept her head down long enough to make it to the capital, Yangon (then known as Rangoon), where she attended medical school in the mid-1980s, then...
...junta came to power, killing up to 3,000 pro-democracy demonstrators. Later it turned its wrath on the Karen. Maung and 14 of her colleagues fled to Thailand. "We didn't think we'd be gone long," she says. "Maybe six months...
Maung, overwhelmed by patients, became equal parts caregiver and administrator. She began raising funds from international refugee organizations, Karen communities in Thailand, religious groups and other Thai charities. She recruited volunteers, taught them front-line medical care and expanded the clinic's services to include HIV testing, maternal care, vaccinations, infectious-disease treatment and more. With the junta tightening its hold, she settled in for a long stay...