Word: kenya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after hour, he lay in pain in a Nairobi hospital that could not adequately deal with the infections he developed. Septicemia posed a mortal risk, as he had only one kidney (transplanted from his brother years ago after both kidneys failed). But for 10 days he refused to leave Kenya to receive better treatment. Ignoring pleas from friends and family, he decided he had to stay in Nairobi to oversee the receipt of part of a $155 million conservation aid package from an international group of donors led by the World Bank...
...second son of famed paleontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, Richard first burst into global prominence in 1972 when his team in Kenya unearthed a beautifully preserved 1.9 million-year-old skull of Homo habilis, an early hominid species first discovered by his parents. Ian Tattersall, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, observes that the younger Leakey has more than his share of luck. "Louis Leakey had to crawl over hot rocky outcrops for 30 years before he found anything of importance; Richard struck gold from the start." Roger Lewin, collaborator on three...
Providing a glimmer of hope in the AIDS fight, researchers have found that a small number of prostitutes in Kenya -- one of the worst-afflicted groups in one of the worst-afflicted countries -- are evidently immune to the virus. If the underlying reason can be found, it might help doctors understand and even cure the disease...
...study in Kenya has shown that HIV-positive women who are pregnant or taking oral contraceptives are likelier than average to infect their sexual partners, maybe because of changes in the cervix...
Unfortunately, these three countries plus South Africa and Kenya (which by now has been largely reduced to an unruly theme park) seem to represent all of Africa to Bonner. If he had looked beyond the English-speaking countries to Zaire and the other Francophone countries (where the conservationists, though often white, tend to be field scientists rather than clubby patricians), he would have seen that without the ivory ban, the slaughter of elephants would have virtually eliminated the mammal in huge tracts of Africa...