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What the volunteers do in Tehran's urban areas, staffs carry out at so-called health stations on the outskirts of the city. In Saloor in Eslamshahr, a poorer satellite city of about half a million outside Tehran, the three nurses in the two-room health station are busy weighing infants, giving vaccines and taking the blood pressure of the mostly elderly visitors, like Mirza Seyyed Hosseini, 75, a shoemaker who drops in on occasion for a multivitamin injection...
...Edna Parker, 115, was the world's oldest person by 143 days. An Indiana farmer's wife who didn't drink or smoke, Parker worked as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse until her marriage in 1913. She is survived by, among others, 13 great-great-grandchildren...
Strings extend across the Adams Art Space like lasers, both encouraging exploration of the space and prohibiting it. These boundaries present the artistic goals of Trevor J. Martin ’10 in his two-room exhibition “through/within/without”: to examine and problematize one’s physical and emotional situation. Martin began studying art in high school, where he experimented with painting and digital media. In the fall of his freshman year at Harvard, he dove into the arts scene, contributing to a show for a class in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department...
...sleepy neighborhood on the outskirts of Dhaka stands an empty lot called the Jalladkhana - Bengali for "Butcher's Den." A courtyard, flanked by a red brick wall and lined with potted plants and marble plaques, leads to a small two-room building. Inside, it is quiet and tranquil; a few candles flicker. Kept there are tiny traces of an untold horror that took place nearly 40 years ago: a pair of broken spectacles, a sandal with its straps torn, human skulls and bones. "They speak," says Mofidul Hoque, a trustee of the museum that preserves the site, "of an immeasurable...
...thought someone had taken her for her kidney," says the weeping mother, clutching a photocopy of her daughter's picture that she keeps in a special place in her tiny two-room flat. "Many, many places I looked. My husband traveled everywhere looking. I was all the time crying for my daughter." Her husband says: "My wife was half mad with grief...