Word: squalidity
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...religion is also terrible. These people whose faces I now watch in awe—I can’t help thinking that their ancestors confined mine to squalid, unlivable ghettos, or watched in silence as the cattle cars rolled out towards Auschwitz. And there’s no need to list the places in today’s world where people continue to kill in the name...
...admits that from a distance even he imagined a "promised, damaged land." So he went to Tibet in 1999 "to see it unmediated by the versions or hopes of others." The result is an honest, informed and extremely well written account. French traveled into the countryside, visiting forgotten monasteries, squalid towns and simple, nomad villages. He met people still bravely resisting China's 1950 invasion, risking dreaded prisons famed for torture. He encountered many Tibetans?often angry and defensive?who had chosen to join the system to survive...
...Meanwhile, hobbled by a lack of candid information about the disease, many doctors are unclear about the best treatment methods available to them. At the Inner Mongolia Thoracic Hospital, located in a squalid part of Hohhot in front of a garbage dump, a doctor eagerly opens an express-mail package sent by a colleague in Beijing. Inside it are pages of SARS research from the University of West Virginia, which points to antioxidants as a possible treatment for the mysterious pathogen. "Our preventive measures aren't sufficient," he says. "Beijing sent us instructions about how to prepare for this disease...
...Ramchandra hates his job, hates his in-laws, hates Kathmandu and has lost his passion for the dutiful Goma. He is struck by Malati's erotic promise and within the space of a few pages the once somnambulant Ramchandra is shadowing his student to her squalid home. Upadhyay paints Ramchandra's fevered befuddlement perfectly as he tries to think through the unthinkable: "He had an urge to walk toward Tangal, knock on Malati's door and tell her not to come to his house anymore, that he could no longer tutor her. Or perhaps crawl into bed next...
...ideologies is also evident in Lula's cabinet. The President himself is a high school dropout, former metalworker and labor union leader, but his handpicked Central Bank president, Henrique Meirelles, is a Harvard graduate and former president of BankBoston. Welfare Minister Benedita da Silva rose from a squalid Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and was Brazil's first black female Senator, while Vice President José Alencar is a textile multimillionaire from the right-wing Liberal Party. Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, a pop music star, sports dreadlocks; Chief of Staff José Dirceu wears power suits and helped guide...