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...poverty in Nepal and the toll it exacts on its smallest citizens are staggering. Twenty years ago, the infant-mortality rate was 133 for every 1,000 births, most of the babies claimed by pneumonia and diarrhea. By the 1980s, it was clear that a lack of vitamin A in the Nepalese diet was a factor in the high rates of infant mortality and in a form of blindness. All it would take to reduce both would be a low-cost vitamin-A capsule taken as infrequently as twice a year...
...other living expenses, Dizik has continued to work since she turned 65. For 10 years, she was with Broward County Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to seniors, some younger than she is. But three years ago, when she turned 75, driving 100 miles a day began exacting a toll...
...side, is hellish. The stench of death still hangs in a pestilential cloud over Muzaffarabad, the largest Kashmiri city on the Pakistani side. Thousands died in the city, many of them in hospitals and schools destroyed by the 7.6 magnitude quake-on Wednesday, aid officials revised the final death toll upwards in Pakistan from 54,000 to nearly 80,000. Another 1,400 were killed on the Indian side...
Last week’s devastating earthquake in Kashmir tore communities apart and plunged a region already beset by strife and uncertainty deeper into chaos. With the death toll rising past 50,000 and heading towards 100,000, a rising chorus of voices in Cambridge has been asking just how large a crisis has to be for Harvard to match donations from members of the community, as it has done two other times this year. Although we understand the call to have a clear-cut policy as to when Harvard will match donations, we feel that the University should continue...
Like other Iraqi parents, al-Tamimi frets about the emotional toll on his child caused by the daily onslaught of suicide bombings. But al-Tamimi bears a personal responsibility for his son's bizarre ambitions. For the past 13 months, al-Tamimi has played a crucial, and murderous, role in the Iraqi insurgency: he is one of a small number of operatives who provide would-be suicide bombers with everything from safe houses to target information and explosives. Al-Tamimi says he also acts as a guardian, religious guide and all-around father figure in the final days...