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...decins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or msf), the sole relief group in the village. There is a row of freshly dug graves under the trees on the edge of Dubie's biggest refugee camp. "Essentially people are dying of starvation," says Delfin Kapia, a medic for msf, as he struggles to inject antibiotics into a six-month-old boy weighing just 4.6 kg. The following day, Dubie's first food delivery since January arrived. The U.N. truck convoy had taken nearly four weeks to traverse 480 km of dirt track. Despite the dramatic nature of the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starving In A Land Of Plenty | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...crackle of gunfire. Within hours, the wounded Greene had been airlifted to the U.S. Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where doctors reported late last week that he was in stable but serious condition. He faces "a very long and protracted recovery," says Dr. Catherine Gray, a Canadian Forces medic in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Line of Fire | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...of the most heartbreaking and infuriating things I have read about President George W. Bush's filthy war of choice is the deployment of medic Sergeant Dywata Reynolds, who had to leave her 4-month-old daughter to go to Iraq. What has our nation come to? It is becoming increasingly difficult to say I am proud to be an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 20, 2006 | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...admit that the dangers of serving in Iraq have been jarring. Many enlisted before the Iraq war, when military life for privates was much the same as working in, say, McDonald's, only you had to salute your bosses. "I thought I'd be working in a hospital," says medic Sergeant Dywata Reynolds. "But then this war started." While on patrol recently, Reynolds, the mother of a baby, survived a fusillade of insurgent gunfire. Says Collins: "We didn't expect to be as close to combat as we are, but you can't get much closer than this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Lines | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...actor; in Los Angeles. In a career spanning six decades, he starred in All Quiet on the Western Front, played opposite Greta Garbo and portrayed Dr. Kildare in the MGM film series. During World War II, Ayres provoked an outcry by declining combat duty. (He served as a medic and chaplain's aide.) Weathering the controversy, he went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his role in Johnny Belinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 13, 1997 | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

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