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...There are not enough doctors to go around," says Dr. Martin Drell, head of child psychiatry for Louisiana State University's health-science center in New Orleans and AACAP's president-elect. For example, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the local hospital doesn't have a child psychiatrist, so doctors some six hours away, at Michigan State University in East Lansing, treat patients via videoconferencing. In South Carolina, a statewide telepsychiatry program established last summer has cut the average waiting period for a child to get a psychiatric consultation from several days (in part because many families in rural areas...
Mourad Mwafi has been in charge of North Sinai, Egypt's eastern frontier governorate, for only the past 2½ months. But the broad-shouldered official is comfortable in his new role. He knows the turf well - the northern half of Egypt's arid Sinai Peninsula - and is well aware of its challenges. As a military general and former chief of Egyptian military intelligence, he's already well acquainted with his friends and foes in the region. (Watch a video on the tunnel smugglers of the Gaza Strip...
Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula from 1967 to 1982, and despite a cold peace between the two states for the past three decades, intense animosity toward the Jewish state continues to dominate the Egyptian national consciousness. To the authorities of North Sinai, then, the sheer notion that there were Bedouin willing to side with Israel over Egypt constituted nothing short of the most serious treason. "Journalists should depend on official sources," declared Mosaad Arug, a member of the North Sinai local council, in a meeting convened to confront TIME's reporter about the story. "The people...
...Thousands of miles away, life went on pause across the Korean Peninsula as students (now on winter break) and office workers all stopped what they were doing to watch Kim's program at 1:20 p.m. Seung Jun Lee, a 16-year-old high school student in Yangju, 30 miles north of Seoul, returned home from cram school at lunch to watch Kim skate with his family. "Maybe I will have to skip class today," he predicted amid the excitement. Even businessmen had caught Kim fever and were willing to suffer a dip in productivity during her skate. "When...
...salvaged from our suffering/ Is not in the shadowy hands of our religious philosophies/ But in the charge of stars, flowers/ & the blaze of autumn color," he writes in "Crimson Leaves," also from Abiding Places. The poem describes the annual turning of maples across the entirety of the Korean peninsula, from the Tumen River bordering China to Naejang Mountain in Ko's native North Jeolla province and on to Cheju Island. By early December, when I arrive at Naejang Mountain to trace Ko's footsteps up Seoraebong Peak, the famed red foliage - for Ko an arboreal emblem of a unified...