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...Poisonings:This one has a flicker of hope about it, since poison-control centers around the world field millions of calls per day and resolve most poisonings over the phone. Still, a lot of lives are lost - 45,000 per year, or 123 per day. Medicines both prescription and over-the-counter, household products, pesticides and the paraffin burned in some stoves and lamps are the biggest killers. Not surprisingly, kids under 1 year old - particularly those in low- and middle-income countries - are at the greatest risk. It's no surprise either that the most effective fixes include simply...
...questions I have is: Is the divorce rate so low because people are promising their eternal love to each other or because of the government?” she said.Cidre learned that she had won the fellowship only six hours after her interview. She received the phone call while studying in Widener Library.“I couldn’t scream because they would have kicked me out, but I was in shock,” Cidre said. “I couldn’t even walk. My legs were shaking. I was about...
Like many mothers in Afghanistan, Maghferat Samimi has affixed the photo of a child to her mobile phone. But the two-and-a-half-year-old is not her daughter. She is a rape victim, one of scores that Samimi, a researcher with the Afghan Human Rights Organization, has documented in the country's northern provinces over the past six months. Witnesses to the child's abduction by a local militia commander - a person who would once have been called a "warlord" - have had their rape claim backed up by a nearby hospital, but the district police chief maintains that...
...Human Rights Watch and Afghan human rights organizations such as Samimi's have documented extortion rackets run by former warlords and militia-run prisons where captives are held for ransom. Afghan journalists covering their crimes have been harassed by police or thrown in jail. Last year Samimi received a phone call from General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally who was appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai as Army Chief of Staff, threatening to have her raped "by 100 men" if she continued investigating a rape case in which he was implicated. Dostum denies ever making such a threat...
...Still, Brown, Sarkozy and Barroso had all deemed it politic to separately disturb Merkel's Sunday rest with placatory phone calls ahead of their Lancaster House confab. Their powers of persuasion will be more thoroughly tested when she joins them at the European Council in Brussels on Dec. 11 and 12, in search of a unified approach to the economic crisis. "It would be completely unreasonable to think of any active plan without Germany," said Barroso, a point explicity recognized at a Lancaster House conference 54 years ago, when European powers together with America agreed to restore German sovereignty, recognizing...