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Chung To, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined...
...let’s get this straight: the Pope, who does not mince words when it comes to decrying the plight of the world’s poor and horrors of globalization, tells America’s supposedly devout leader that he needs to take a more moral approach to these issues—and all we hear about are stem cells? The same goes for the Vatican’s outcries at unilateral action in Iraq which—outside of Christopher Hitchens’ observation last winter that “An awful realization has been dawning upon...
...another entrance. There, hundreds of Iraqis stood for hours in 120º heat, searching for relatives. Finally, an American woman tapped Mohammed's name into a laptop computer but came up with nothing. She told Raed to try the Republican Palace; there a U.S. soldier turned him back. Overhearing his plight, an Iraqi driver directed Raed to a place on the bank of the Tigris where hundreds of Iraqis were scouring lists of names pasted to the walls of a building. "I realized these were relatives of Saddam's prisoners who had been executed before the war," Raed says with...
...last, news about Iraq and not just about bombings and ambushes! Your story suggested a different, perhaps more optimistic picture of the plight of the common Iraqi since the regime change. Hope breeds optimism, and optimism breeds success. Long live hope in Iraq! Doug Hawkins Lethbridge, Canada...
...While the plight of the mentally sick patients is disturbing enough, what adds to their suffering is the apathy of mentally sound individuals who are unable to help them live with dignity and honor. Navneet Dhawan New Delhi...