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...talk of a humanitarian crisis is not true." OMAR AL-BASHIR, President of Sudan, rejecting a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in war-torn Darfur. Al-Bashir maintained that fewer than 9,000 people had been killed in the conflict, instead of the 200,000 reported by international media...
...knew right away that something was definitely wrong,” she says. “I was told that my ACL and MCL were torn and that I would potentially lose my full year...
Right before Kessler was set to have surgery, her doctors realized that, in fact, just the MCL was torn, shortening her expected recovery time...
...Torn between reasonable fear and hypochondria, safety and overprotection, parents struggle to raise their children with some semblance of normalcy-without driving themselves, their kids, their friends, and their communities crazy. Waiters roll their eyes when parents ask to view labels and school staff often resist accommodations. Parents whose kids dive into birthday cake with abandon and live on PB and J aren't necessarily sympathetic to what they call the peanut police. Even the most understanding moms aren't accustomed to the precautions involved in having an allergic child over for a playdate...
...continuing misery. Two weeks ago, when Kimberley Process members sat down to their annual plenary meeting in Botswana to discuss how the watchdog system was working, the pressure for tighter oversight had ratcheted up. Responding to a U.N. report that poor controls are allowing conflict diamonds from war-torn Ivory Coast to enter the legitimate trade through neighboring Ghana, where they are being certified as conflict free, the diamond industry agreed not only to send a group to Ghana to ensure that it was complying with its obligations but also to publish annual industry-wide production and trade statistics...