Word: squalidly
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...Northern Uganda's struggle has killed tens of thousands, and 1.5 million people still live, as Ojok does today, in squalid, packed camps for civilians displaced by the conflict. But now that negotiations between the LRA and Uganda are underway in nearby southern Sudan, those millions are waiting on word that Uganda's child soldiers and displaced civilians can finally go home. Despite shaky relations all around and the death Saturday of LRA's third-in-command Raska Lukwiya in a government attack, the talks are widely seen as the country's best chance at peace in decades...
Scritti Politti is an unfamiliar name today, but it was a different story in the 80s. After rattling around the British post-punk scene for years, Gartside and Co. decided they were tired of making music that was barely listened to or talked about outside their squalid Camden flat...
...rain forests and squalid towns of Panama were rife with diseases like malaria and yellow fever. As many as 20,000 people died during the French effort to build a canal in the late 1800s. But as a result of his work in Cuba after the Spanish-American War, a tireless American doctor named William Gorgas came to believe strongly in the new discovery that a specific mosquito spread yellow fever. Overcoming doubters, he began a widespread campaign of mosquito eradication and sanitation improvements. The death rate among canal workers plummeted...
...land. If ever there was a man of honor and integrity who could bring justice to the wretched of this world ? it certainly wasn't Diego Alatriste y Tenorio. As an infantry captain, he had fought well against Spain's enemies. But now he was hacking out a squalid living in Madrid as a sword-for-hire. Nevertheless, Captain Alatriste is poised to become fiction's hottest international swashbuckler since the Scarlet Pimpernel. Already a cult hero in Spain, Alatriste is the star of five novels by former journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte that have sold more than...
...passing years have proved him right. Those cheery tourists need only have peered out of their French Quarter hotel-room windows to see the ugly and abject poverty on full display at the squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carré off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem...