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Sitting in a straw-walled hut, the young woman whispers her grim tale: as she walked recently near a refugee camp in the village of Dubie in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a government soldier dragged her into a house, tore off her sarong and T shirt, and raped her. Her two-month-old baby, whom she was carrying on her back, tumbled to the ground and lay wailing throughout the attack. "He left me there naked," Ngoza Djoli says, her baby at her breast. Djoli does not know how old she is; she looks about 17. When her husband...
...Naturally, at these prices you'll have to jettison some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent facelift. The solution is to lie back and think of the bragging potential?your friends may have done chakra balancing in Bhutan, or chromotherapy in Bali, but Kyrgyzstan...
...salt rooms (therapeutic, apparently, for people with asthma and other respiratory complaints), guests relax in the sanatorium's gardens or at the nearby beach. Naturally, at these prices you'll have to jettison some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent face-lift. The solution is to lie back and think of the bragging potential - your friends may have done...
...Muslim majority, the couple were known for their public displays of affection, often hugging or bestowing pecks on each other's cheeks. During the funeral, Abdullah, 65, did his best to appear stoic. Wearing a traditional black songkok hat, a high-collared blue shirt and a checked cotton sarong, he comforted friends at the funeral who broke down as they bade his wife a last goodbye...
Gainful summer employment at Camp Chunder Camp, while neither gainful, redundant, nor redundant lacks the glamour of an average Harvard summer. However, what it lacks in resume readiness and career preparation, it more than makes up for in living preparation and the ability to wear a sarong all day, all the time. Success stories abound as we have yet to lose a camper and survived our first electrical storm last night. And few places give one the opportunity to travel so prolifically: Sweeden, South Paris, China, and Dixfield...