Word: ngoma
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...Leon Ngoma Miezi Kintaudi, 56, is one physician who is bucking the trend. Born 150 miles from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaïre, he moved to the U.S. after finishing high school and worked his way through college and medical school in California. But while treating patients in a public-health clinic in Los Angeles, he kept thinking about Congo. He watched the country deteriorate in the 1990s as civil war took hold. On trips to visit his mother, who refused to move, Kintaudi says, "I started dreaming about doing something...