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...from every government, including Belarus', the balloons ascended from Wil, near the Swiss city of St. Gallen, at 7:45 a.m. Over the next 60 hours, Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis, together with two other balloons also piloted by Americans, drifted north toward Dresden, passed through Germany and eventually entered Poland. By 9:30 a.m. last Tuesday, they were poised to cross the Polish-Belarussian border...
...scratch most of the postcommunist world too, where the advent of market economies has been a decidedly mixed blessing for women. Female unemployment is up, female-supportive services like public child care are getting as scarce as public portraits of Stalin. In Poland women have lost their right to abortion. In Russia it's a fact of postcommunist economic life that an office job can include a responsibility to sleep with the boss...
Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau, Prussia, a town now in Poland. A man with a lifelong taste for whatever was close-in, informal and unofficial, he came to photography at the very moment handheld cameras were at last making it possible to take pictures in the same unbuckled mood. Seen through Eisenstaedt's Leica, public events became less ceremonious, while ordinary people took on scale and emotional weight. After he fled Hitler, those were the qualities that recommended him to the editors of LIFE, where in 1936 he became one of its four original photographers. It was part...
Disgusted with the international community's failure to stop atrocities in Bosnia, the United Nations' chief human rights investigator for the region abruptly quit today. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first post-communist prime minister and a former political prisoner, said Western inaction afterSerbs overran the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa was "unacceptable to me. One cannot speak about the protection of human rights with credibility when one is confronted with the lack of consistency and courage displayed by the international community and its leaders...
WorldTeach was founded by a Harvard student who spent a year teaching in a rural Kenyan school in 1987. The program now coordinates programs in China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Namibia, Poland, Thailand and Mexico...