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...foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root of her problem is chronic diarrhea, a daily killer of 5,000 young children in the developing world and the cause of one-third of child deaths in Bangladesh. Her 15-year-old mother, Jharana, had never heard of diarrhea before she was advised to take Sohag to ICDDR's hospital. There, the baby received saline solution through a vein in her arm, and a rice-based solution through a tube in her nose. Weak as she is, patients like Sohag who make...
...Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit. At Damilaz's funeral, militants in black T shirts fired AK-47s in the air. On a white wall, someone had sprayed the words CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FAMILY FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF DAMILAZ HAMAD. The only genuine grief was from the girl's paraplegic mother, who lay crumpled on a mattress on a dirty floor, wailing for her lost daughter. I listened to friends trying to convince the family that Allah had singled out Damilaz, instead of all the ruffians and murderers in this blighted stretch of Gaza, for an early death because her suffering...
...Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) session, Domenico A. Pellegrini ’09 and Jack D. Reed ’08 found and facilitated a woman giving birth in a van parked near 16 Garden Street early Tuesday morning. The students said they remained with the mother, who was alone, and newborn child until rescue crews arrived. Paramedics transported the woman and baby to the Cambridge City Hospital shortly before 6 a.m., according to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief James F. Burns. Pellegrini and Reed left from the quad on their bikes in the early morning to attend Naval...
...don’t hire me, my friend Felix will kill your mother...
Joining Apple's mother as the only ones ever to call him Raymond, the Prince runs an above-the-fold obit: "A man of the Times." Apple was chairman of the Prince in 1956, but just briefly. Poor grades got him kicked out of Princeton for a second time, and he never returned. (Apple eventually picked up his BA from Columbia's School of General Studies—which, according to this Spectator article, appears to be a haven for dropouts.) But the Prince dregs up what it can of Apple's time on campus, spent almost exclusively...