Word: sudan
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...down, hemorrhage and then bleed out through the body's orifices. The period between infection and the onset of sickness is three to 14 days. Death follows within a fortnight. Ebola-Zaire, the first strain identified, kills 90% of those infected. The strain that hit Uganda is called Ebola-Sudan; it struck twice in Sudan in the late 1970s and disappeared until this latest outbreak. It kills roughly 50% of those infected. Ebola seems to jump species, can mutate, and occurs regularly every few years in areas where civilization butts up against nature. "Why here? Why now? Nobody knows," says...
...Fletcher is right. "Kakistocracy. Are you familiar with that word?" Fletcher asked while nursing his coffee at the Bill O' Fare. "It means government by the worst elements. We've got a failed drug war the candidates won't talk about, and we bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan because Bill was [dallying with] Monica. It doesn't matter whether you vote Republican or Democratic. Nothing will change because the government is run by big-money interests...
...Laden's own organization, Al Qaida, is believed to be a loose network of some 3,000-5,000 men, most of them Arab volunteers who fought in Afghanistan and were either unwilling or unable to return home. They maintained training camps in Afghanistan, the Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere, where they trained fighters for Islamist armies as far afield as Chechnya and western China...
...Laden's network, by contrast, is more like a state unto itself. Bin Laden's personal fortune of hundreds of millions guarantees its liquidity, and when the hospitality of a government is withdrawn, as happened in the Sudan, he is able to simply move his headquarters to another location, preferably a friendly or failed state...
Readjusting to Harvard after experiencing life in Sudan has been a challenge, Williams says...