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...year old Andrew Speaker disobeyed CDC officials when they contacted him during his trip in Rome and asked that he remain in the city until special transport could be arranged. It was then that an official for the U.S. health agency informed him that his TB was not only resistant to multiple drugs, as he had initially been told before he left for Europe, but was also considered "extensively resistant" to drugs (XDR), meaning most first-line and second-line drug treatments might be ineffective...
...Although Fried, a self-described motivational speaker and author of two books, is used to traveling around the U.S. and the world speaking to teenagers in well-appointed high school auditoriums, he was forced to be resourceful on Roatan, where the municipal hospital has no running water and many of the Hispanic and Afro-Caribbean residents believe that they can get HIV by stepping on a chicken bone that has a hex on it. "It was totally heartbreaking when I first came here, and talked to teenagers who have HIV," says Fried, a former Broadway actor who has been living...
...later shown on national television. Another, according to Dai's own account, declared he could no longer control his outrage at the "traitor" and rushed toward Dai shouting, "I'm so angry, I want to choke him!" Police pulled the attacker away and handed the microphone to the next speaker...
...Soliciting a former speaker of the House to write about Nancy Pelosi may have seemed like a good idea, but Newt Gingrich's piece smacked of political grandstanding. The depiction of her Syrian trip was bad enough, but ending with tips for Republicans on how to take back the House of Representatives was even worse. The piece was hardly about Pelosi. It was about Gingrich, who is mulling a presidential run and trying to prove how good a political strategist he is. Stephanie Barnard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin...
...literally born into a life of activism, but Yolanda King, the eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, arrived in Montgomery, Ala., just two weeks before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus there. A social activist, motivational speaker and actress--she played Parks in the 1978 mini-series King--Yolanda was the most visible family member during this year's Martin Luther King Day--the first since her mother's death last year. She collapsed, of a suspected heart problem, after giving a speech in Santa Monica, Calif...