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...laid with banana leaves. On it is a small bundle wrapped in a red-and-blue blanket. An imam calls the crowd together, asks them to take off their shoes and arranges them in two lines, women behind men, facing east. "Allahu akbar," he says twice. Then four men pick up the bier, easily handling its weight with one arm, and walk a short way to a freshly dug hole, into which they lower the bundle and bury it. Three other small, fresh graves nearby indicate Ayano Gemeda, 6, was not the first child to starve in Kersa this year...
...According to Kirsten Thompson, director of the Male Contraception Coalition, if Phase III clinical trials were to begin tomorrow on some of those discarded drugs, men would probably have their pick of contraceptive gels or implants - just like women - within five years. Yet, she says, drug companies still aren't interested. Though industry representatives refused to speak to the marketability question for this article, one spokeswoman for Organon, Monique Mols, told the industry journal Chemistry World in 2007, "Despite 20 years of research, the development of a [hormonal] method acceptable to a wide population of men is unlikely...
...great benefit is knowing that we don't die. It's wonderful to know that life is eternal, and love is eternal. But additionally, it's taught me respect for others. Don't give someone the finger while driving. Pick up that garbage. I want to make a difference in the world. I want to make it a little happier, a little nicer. If I can do that, I'll be thrilled...
Stand the Storm By Breena Clarke; out now Calling all book clubs! Clarke, whose debut novel, River, Cross My Heart, was a 1999 Oprah pick, scores again with this Civil War--era saga, set in Washington. She tells the deeply affecting story of a family of freed slaves in an evocative, historically rich book that brings the turbulent period alive. The author neither averts her eye from, nor sugarcoats the truth about, the uphill struggle for dignity in this gritty town...
...keep the conversation going. "I spend a lot of time on the phone," he says. "I find I assimilate information by talking to people and getting inputs from many people. I always said to my kids, 'Don't assume.' I say to the people here, 'Don't assume. Pick up the phone and call and talk to people...