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...great thing about being a musician in an age of digital communications, though, is that local obscurity is no barrier to international recognition. Indonesians don't give them a second look, but a buzz about the band - whose sultry, slow-burning trip-hop invites comparisons with Goldfrapp or Portishead - has gently percolated around the region, thanks to a well-tended MySpace presence, Channel V airplay and the fact that Yohanna mostly sings in English...
...dawn one Sunday in August in Kora Olia, a remote village in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan, where maternal mortality is about four times the country's already high rate. Nine months pregnant, Harakatmo, 19, began bleeding heavily. Her husband and mother-in-law were concerned, but the local doctor was far away, and expensive, so they waited. When Harakatmo was still bleeding the next morning, they sent a horseman to fetch a village health worker, but Harakatmo's bleeding continued. Panicked, her husband strapped her to a makeshift stretcher and carried her down the steep track from their...
Even in Sierra Leone there are glimmers of hope. Aid organizations recently began training traditional birth attendants; several towns now demand that they deliver babies in clinics, where nurses can monitor their work. An hour east of Freetown, I visited a village where local elders had just passed a law requiring all women to give birth at a clinic or face fines of about $8--more than the clinic fee. And the World Bank, UNICEF and the British government's Department for International Development have agreed to jointly invest $262 million over the next three years to overhaul Sierra Leone...
...Almost all of Houston is congregating in the two big malls because they’re the only ones with power,” she said. Kodama said that a general feeling of frustration has taken over the city, manifesting itself in the frequent angry phone calls to local radio shows. “They’re angry about the infrastructure problems, and [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] took a while to get started,” she said. But she added that a newfound sense of community has emerged in Houston...
...November. During the campaign, O’Reilly styled himself as a more principled and liberal alternative to Kerry, lambasting the senator for his 2002 vote in favor of military action in Iraq. He also argued that Kerry—who is well-known nationally while never having the local following of Massachusetts’ senior senator, Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56—should devote more time to representing the interests of his constituents. The race represented Kerry’s first contested Democratic primary since he first won a three-way primary...