Word: pond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Pond returned to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh less than two years ago, he found no support for his plans. Pond brought together a group of disgruntled college students who wanted the government to clean up streets polluted with 25 years of trash, human bones and feces...
...country, and it's yours," Pond said. "It's easy to point fingers...
With that attitude, Pond, a former Brown University undergraduate, "started picking the shit off the streets," Thompson said...
Today, more than 20,000 young Cambodians clean the streets with Pond. Members of his organization also plant trees, teach English and serve as big siblings...
...Pond was among the first three Cambodian orphans to arrive in the United States. In 1980, when he landed in New York, he was but a 50-pound 14-year...