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Spending a day at the hospital with the MSF team reveals the scope of the crisis. "Oh, man, this one is really bad," an Australian doctor shouts as he approaches the operating theater. He's holding up the arm of a man whose limb looks like a shank of lamb. The elbow is essentially gone, and the lower and upper arm is barely held together by a few sinewy strings of muscle and flesh. Though paint is peeling off the walls and a layer of grime covers many of the hospital's windows, Sigli's only hospital is fairly clean...
...samosas, fresh spinach and mustard greens in the saag paneer, and litchi juice in the margaritas. Indika's self-taught chef-owner, Anita Jaisinghani, 41, worked most recently at Cafe Annie, one of Houston's best-known restaurants. She knows when to keep things simple (a meltingly tender lamb shank) and when to experiment (puff pastry crowned with palm sugar and almonds). "I wanted to Americanize the food slightly," she says, "but just to improve...
...Middle Eastern, Asian, Southern and Mediterranean influences. Elsewhere, the round-the-world tour continues with Caribbean appetizers, French cheeses and Indian desserts. In the Blue Room’s brave new world, Asian vegetables with soba noodles, ginger, soy and sesame ($17) can turn up next to braised lamb shank with dates and almonds, couscous and harissa ($22). This is not mere “American eclectic” or “world fusion,” but an attempt at true culinary globalization...
...Charlie White’s photograph “Friday Night,” a tanned, blond housewife in a dowdy, powder blue night gown, aggressively kneads a raw shank of meat into the pristinely white carpet of her suburban home. Her furrowed brow, clenched teeth, and planted thighs represent a hostile determination. In an opening night lecture, Charlie White suggested that this woman is pounding a part of herself into the floor...
...team placed fourth at NCAA regionals despite a disappointing fifth place at Heps—optimism is high among the distance runners. Cross-country captain John Friedman, who placed fifth in the 5000 at Heps last year, will contend in that event again this year, as will junior Nathan Shank-Boright, who took fifth at cross-country Heptagonals last month. Haggerty also expects that junior Matthew Seidel, who placed eighth at cross-country Heps, will surprise people in the 3000. Junior John Traugott will contend for the title in the 1000 to follow up a second-place finish...