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...Lancet. They had cut child mortality in half--a figure that would fall to a quarter by 2003--for a cost of $2.64 for each child saved. The program is being adopted across India, where more than a quarter of the 4 million annual newborn deaths occur, and in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of Africa...
Saving the lives of sickly children doesn't take much: a little money, some medicine, the right food. In Nepal, they've discovered one more factor: the power of the grandmother. It was Ram Shrestha, chemist and health expert, who figured out how to unleash...
...Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in high-altitude medicine and, more important, the route he devised to the summit using an archival map he had unearthed in Nepal...
...doctor building clinics in Rwanda, the motorcycle riders carrying medicines across roadless stretches of Uganda, the survivor of the refugee camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
...could no longer sell her jewelry based on her dimples alone, while her peers grew out of beading, she did not. Sara L. Bartel ’06 says she finds it easier to craft clothes by studying different ways of dress, in particular, the clothing she saw in Nepal. “One of the best things I’ve made recently is a pair of these wrap pants I saw in Nepal, except with a more modern, gold fabric.” Wood was also inspired by what he saw in China...