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...planned, Hatch took a leave of absence after his freshman year to go on his Mormon mission. For members of the church, a mission abroad is often seen as a rite of passage. While the team anticipated his departure, they, like Hatch, did not expect him to travel to Chile...
...knew he had to go on his Mormon mission,” Pizzotti said, “It was just a matter of when he was going to do it. When he went to Chile, the guys gave him a hard time about...
...Hatch explained that the intent of the mission was to provide much-needed service to a underprivileged community...
...French Foreign Ministry had aired similar and repeated public misgivings over the Zoe's Ark mission after it began last May. Meanwhile, testimony gathered in France since Thursday's detentions led French legal authorities to open an investigation on the NGO on suspicions of "intermediary activity in unauthorized adoptions". Zoe's Ark officials have responded with repeated statements that their operation did not involve adoption. They've similarly explained that while their care in Chadian camps allowed most of the children to recover from the near fatal conditions they were found in, their continuously fragile physical and mental health requires...
...While there's little sign of an end to the ordeal of the those in the camps, for the entrepreneurs of El Fasher, things look likely to get even better: At the end of 2007, the struggling AU mission will be merged into a 26,000-strong hybrid U.N. operation. Already, new houses are springing up close to the razor-wire fence of the AU headquarters, where simple four-bedroom houses can fetch $2,000 a month. Tajel al-Din Dissa, an economics lecturer at the university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house...