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...They have demonstrated that the poor can still hope to see improvement in their lives. Time has shown that journalism can make a difference in the effort to leave our children a world worth living in. Widhyawati Ambara Jakarta In the face of the devastating reality of the death toll from infectious disease, we still waste massive resources on the unending war in Iraq. If the global health crisis were not so tragic, one would have to conclude that the world is a comedy. But the work of a few altruistic individuals in saving lives will be remembered. Jide Martyns...
They're still finding bodies down here 13 weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit--30 in the past month--raising the death toll to 1,053 in Louisiana. The looters are still working too, brazenly taking their haul in daylight. But at night darkness falls, and it's quiet. "It's spooky out there. There's no life," says cardiologist Pat Breaux, who lives near Pontchartrain with only a handful of neighbors. The destruction, says Breaux, head of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, depresses people. Suicides are up citywide, he says, although no one has a handle on the exact number...
...Deaths caused each year as a result of global climate change, according to World Health Organization estimates. The toll could double...
...stranger to distinction herself. The senior was second-team All-Ivy last year, as well. Knoche was literally flawless within the cage to begin her collegiate career, recording four straight shutouts to lead the nation in goals-against average (GAA). Although the latter part of the season took its toll, she wrapped up 2005 with a 1.5 GAA and a .794 save percentage. Princeton sophomore forward Paige Schmidt was selected Player of the Year. —PABLO S. TORRE
...Speaking to a Jerusalem audience of American and Israeli intellectuals and policy-makers organized by the Brookings Institution Sunday night, Rice appealed for support resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by focusing on the human toll on both sides. ? Terrorists have claimed the lives of over one thousand innocent Israelis and injured thousands of others-men and women and children who simply wanted to enjoy a pizza or catch a bus or celebrate Passover,? she said. ?And the Palestinian people have suffered, too. They too have mourned the loss of innocent life. They too have been deprived of days that...