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...oppressed people," he said in 1984. The LTTE steadily acquired massive caches of conventional weapons but also pioneered two of the most brutal tactics of modern guerrilla warfare: child recruitment and suicide bombing. Children as young as 10 were used to kill women and children in remote rural villages, according to a 1996 U.N. report. In combat in the 1990s, between 40% and 60% of the dead Tiger fighters in Sri Lanka were children under the age of 18, according to a 2004 Human Rights Watch report. In 1987, the LTTE established the Black Tigers - suicide cadres, many of them...
Cheyney decided to test the British journal's findings in her home state, where the rate of planned home births is at least twice the national average, due both to Oregon's culturally liberal leanings as well as its wide rural stretches, which can make hospitals hard to reach. (From 1998 to 2003, parts of the state also had higher than average rates of premature and low-birthweight babies, leading some critics to conclude that midwifery was partly to blame.) Cheyney and doctoral student Courtney Everson examined one county's birth records from the entirety of that period and found...
...companies have done, what you've seen is sustained experimentation over many years and a shift in incentive structures so that employees see concrete benefits as a consequence of them stopping smoking or losing weight or getting exercise." (See pictures of the Remote Area Medical Foundation's work in rural Appalachia...
...jailing parents to try and keep them silent, one group has continued to press Beijing for details on school construction and the exact number of students killed in the disaster as well as their identities and other details. It's the kind of battle routinely fought all over rural China, pitting powerful local officials and businessmen against ordinary citizens who feel they have been wronged. It's also a struggle that is almost always won by the powers that be. (See pictures of the aftermath of the Sichuan quake...
...Winnie, the OIP would help students secure an alternative placement and allow their grants to fund the new program or project in the event that a cancellation did occur. Harvard’s inaugural Summer Internship Program on Sustainable Development in Mexico has placed eight undergraduates in various rural communities in the southern part of the country. Barron said that as of last Thursday, all eight students still plan to attend the program. “We want to stress that not only has the University been monitoring the situation, but on an individual level we at the David Rockefeller...