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...driving force behind this effort was an unassuming but iron-willed American woman from Moscow, Idaho, Dr. Jill Seaman, whose previous experience had been providing public-health services to Yup'ik Eskimos in the Alaskan wilderness. In an eight-year struggle against the disease, Seaman developed a wealth of clinical expertise in treating thousands of kala-azar patients, perhaps more than any other single doctor in history...
...disease Jill Seaman battled is not new. In the 19th century, kala-azar ravaged much of eastern India, where it earned its name--Hindi for "black sickness." In 1900 a British physician, Dr. William Boog Leishman, developed a stain to detect the parasite with a microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam...
...then Seaman was attending classes at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Four years earlier, she had taken a break from her job in Alaska to work with Ethiopian refugees at a camp in Sudan but came to realize that she needed more training in tropical medicine. When MSF was scouting at the school for a doctor to take on kala-azar in Sudan, she signed up immediately...
...writing bad checks and being casual about paying off debts. He leased a series of mansions in Beverly Hills for rents ranging from $20,000 to $35,000 a month and was sued repeatedly for moving out without paying. He blamed some of the problems on a former merchant seaman named Mohamed Sead, who he said had been impersonating him. The seaman reportedly booked 23 rooms at the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami in Al Fayed's name and offered film roles to Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields. Dodi said in a court affidavit that "by impersonating me, Sead has caused...
...listening to what was really on people's minds. Thus was born our "Backbone of America" project. We decided to take old U.S. Highway 50, which runs right through the center of the country. With a revolving cast of writers, editors and photographers (coordinated by special-projects editor Barrett Seaman), we visited factories and shops, ate at local cafes and in people's homes, joined in town meetings, played in pool halls and on gambling boats, and stopped our Greyhound at whatever struck our fancy...