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...begun. After belting down three vodkas, Delgado, a Colombian electronics engineer and a Viet Nam veteran, opened fire again, indiscriminately spraying the restaurant and its patrons with gunfire before police finally arrived and shot him dead. At week's end, the motive behind the massacre remained unclear. The final toll: 27 dead and ten wounded...
...when an older sister burns herself to death to escape an abusive marriage, Sanghera begins to realize the toll that custom and oppression are taking on Asian women. While raising children alone and pursuing a college degree on virtually no money, she launches Karma Nirvana (from Sanskrit words connoting action and enlightenment) in a spare room at a Derby women's shelter...
...these legacies is that bequeathed by the armed left whose deadly purges and assassinations are well documented. Not surprisingly, the areas where the armed left have carried out their violence are the same areas where we now see the most unexplained killings. Localized political violence has also taken its toll, bred by decades of abuse by local power holders and years of neglect by the central government. But, by strengthening and keeping faith with our democratic institutions, we intend to break free from this sad part of our history and uphold before our people and the world our unequivocal commitment...
Malaria also helps create a poverty trap with special ferocity in Africa. By a quirk of ecological fate, Africa has the world's heaviest toll of this disease, the result of its tropical climate, its specific types of mosquitoes and its limitless mosquito-breeding sites. Children are struck down in unmatched numbers. And Africa's disease toll from malaria may be even higher than previously recognized. Recent research has found that malaria infection increases the likelihood that an HIV-infected individual will transmit the AIDS virus to others. Many millions are also infected simultaneously with malaria and worm infections, multiplying...
...Regular news reports of the rising military death toll has made recruiting new soldiers even more difficult, laments Colonel Karimullah, head of army recruiting in Kabul. "The boys themselves are not afraid," he says. "But it is their parents who make the decisions to let them join, and when they see all this on TV, they don't think it's worth it." Although legitimate jobs are still hard to come by in Afghanistan, where unemployment hovers around 70%, poppy growing and smuggling in many provinces is a much more lucrative undertaking...