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During the bloody insurrection that produced the new nation of East Timor, Hasan Basri presented residents of the small town of Venelale with a proposition: give me your youngest children. I will feed them, I will educate them, and most importantly, I will protect them. At the time, Jose Pereira, a poor local farmer, awoke each morning wondering if that day the truckload of Indonesian soldiers would appear in their vengeful hunt for independence fighters and attack his family. He listened carefully to what the stranger offered. Hasan said he had government funding. He would take the children...
...left one man injured at the offices of a charity in the commercial capital Karachi. The unidentified men entered the Institute for Peace and Justice, tied and gagged their victims, and then shot them in the head. "I don't believe this was a terrorist attack," said Simeon Pereira, Archbishop of Karachi. Instead, he suspected a "grudge" and linked the murders to that of the charity's chairman Ivan Moon four months ago. INDIA Rocking the Vote The second phase of voting in Kashmir's state elections ended in an atmosphere poisoned by violence and a call for boycott...
...Pereira said the change in the body’s ability to use insulin, caused by obesity, is what often leads to Type 2 diabetes. That is the mild form of non-insulin dependant diabetes that is characterized by glucose intolerance, rather than the more severe Type 1 diabetes which is characterized by an inability to produce insulin...
...Pereira said there are several ways dairy may protect against insulin resistance, obesity and cardiovascular disease...
...Pereira said he is planning to follow this study with more work on how dietary composition affects body weight and risk factors for diabetes...