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...tenants are in exceptionally dire financial straits, the owners are accommodating, occasionally charging nothing—as happened the year Edna Archer lost her job.Archer, 42, came to the United States from Guatemala 20 years ago, following her mother to Massachusetts in search of work. Now employed by a medical company in Bedford, Mass., the single mother moved from nearby Everett Street to Charlesview three years ago with her two children, aged 16 and 20, attracted by the low rent and proximity to schools and public transportation. “I don’t feel like...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...