Word: ler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first step was to find out exactly what the disease was doing. The team had set up operations in a village called Ler, which was several days' walk from Duar. Seaman and a handful of Nuer staff members began to scout on foot toward Duar. What they found was chilling. In some villages, cows wandered unattended; the entire human population had died. Many of the survivors looked like walking skeletons. Sick children carried starving babies after their parents had died on the road. The level of infection in blood tests from villagers in the region was so high that...
...asking him to return and pick up a woman having complications in childbirth. "I told her it was crazy. It was too late. We would crash," says Hesselink. "She made me do it anyway." After picking up the woman and Seaman in Nimne, Hesselink flew in the dark to Ler, where there was better equipment. As the plane approached the field, the Nuer lit fires along the runway. After being treated, the woman gave birth to twins. When Hesselink flew back to Nimne with the newborns, he was greeted by cheering crowds...
...Fied-ler of Dreams: The Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week was Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler, who tied an Ancient Eight record with five touchdown passes against Pennsylvania. Fiedler ended the day 15 of 26 for 203 yards...