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...child soldier, to say the least, isn’t the kind of person you meet on the street every day. We hear about the faraway conflicts he’s forced into, but he remains little more than a number in the death toll, a nameless perpetrator of a brutality that’s incomprehensible to the modern, Western mind. For Ishmael Beah, though, such a life was reality—a reality that he renders with emotional complexity in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child...
...great is the potential human toll of global warming that some economists believe that the focus of global efforts should be less on eliminating carbon emissions than on the urgent challenges of adapting to climate change, such as preparing new sources of water or planning for the movement of millions of environmental refugees. Others argue that while such preparations are a matter of urgency because of the warming trend already in motion, at the same time, if carbon emissions continue to rise, so will temperatures, intensifying the crisis. But there's broad agreement on the economic logic of immediate global...
...friends and media contacting me as I return to what's home, but feels unfamiliar at this point. It's almost like the country boy going to Manhattan for the first time, and going from almost no stimulus to almost non-stop constant stimulus. It does take a certain toll...
...coming days, the number killed is expected to climb well beyond the toll of 30 reported in the early aftermath of the disaster. For those thousands now camping out on higher ground or sheltering under plastic sheeting, food, water, medicines and other supplies can't come quickly enough...
...choice many make is to work. At least 70% of pastors' wives work outside the home, many in professional jobs. Ann Toll had an established career by the time she married Robert, senior pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Fort Collins, Colo., in 2005. A previously married mother of three, Ann, 48, is a financial analyst for a NASA contractor in Boulder who works 10-hr. days, not including the 40-min. commute. She writes for the church newsletter on her lunch break and runs a Sunday youth group, but she draws the line at joining the choir...