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...handful of cases are being processed. Adoption organizations in the U.S., concerned about the rise in violence, keep pushing cases through. "We just want her here," says Ellen Carlson, a trainer for Wells Fargo in Long Lake, Minnesota, who has adopted Patience Williams, a big-eyed, 2-year-old Monrovian girl in short braids and a blue and white polka-dot dress. "We have her bed ready in her bedroom. We have her enrolled in her preschool. Her big sister is waiting for her little sister." The Carlsons have used a photograph of Patience - who's suffering from anemia...
...flee to refugee camps in the capital, Monrovia, where the population has been swelling to more than 1 million. Now the city faces a humanitarian catastrophe. Many people in the camps have received no food distribution since March. "It's heartbreaking," says a U.S. official who visited a Monrovian refugee camp last week. "But in a way it gives you resolve. What I saw was a plea...
...slums near the freeway and a lot of modest homes in between. Four years ago, a new redevelopment agency brought an ailing business district back to health with some strategic investments; the completion of the freeway in 1976 spurred further growth. Housing prices began to climb. Average worth of Monrovian homes: $50,000. Increases in assessments last year: up to 100%. Vote in favor of Proposition 13: a whopping...
Second act: Alarmed by a rumor that the U.S.S. Omaha was coming to Liberia, 15 German citizens packed up and left by fishing boat for the French Ivory Coast. According to Monrovian rumor, they did not stop running until they got to Hamburg. Crowed President Barclay Biblically: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth...
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