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...land-mine victims. But it's obvious that Haiti can't rely on foreigners to fill such a vast order, or to provide the necessary physical therapy its amputees will require to be able to use them at all. "This could be the single biggest medical problem [Haiti] will have as a result of the earthquake," says Volk. (See TIME's comprehensive coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath...
Russi began scolding the hostages. If they didn't want to cooperate, they could stay on the ground for all he cared. The problem was that most of the prisoners seemed prepared to do just that. As the argument grew louder, the fake Australian delegate noticed Keith, Marc, and Tom off to one side. Maybe the gringos would listen to reason. He pleaded with the Americans to collaborate...
...April 2009, my right eye started to itch and turned red. My vision turned blurry, and I couldn't figure out why I was losing sight in that eye, so I went to see a general practitioner, who suggested I see a specialist as it looked as though the problem might be in the cornea. I followed his advice, and after enduring a merry-go-round of eye doctors in Jakarta, my eye continued to get worse. Weeks later, I decided to leave the country to seek treatment, but by then it was too late. The condition had already damaged...
...treatable illnesses. As for myself, I wondered how something as treatable as vernal conjunctivitis, which generally afflicts allergy sufferers, could lead to blindness. I had to go back to the U.S. to find out what at least six doctors here couldn't decipher; a doctor in Michigan diagnosed my problem in five minutes. "You have a case of vernal conjunctivitis," the cornea specialist told me. "If your doctors over there had looked under your eyelid they would have caught it, or at least they should have." (See "The Year in Health...
...weather, according to the racers, was at the root of the problem. During the early qualification runs, fog mucked with visibility. And all the well-publicized rain and warm temperatures that descended upon Cypress Mountain, which sits about 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver, added to the course's difficulty. "It's challenging because the snow is so slushy," said Simona Meiler from Switzerland, who fell twice during her first qualification run and got a fat, bloody lip. "It's hard to keep your balance. You're not allowed to make any mistakes." (See 25 Olympic athletes to watch...