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...nearly three hours, they tell stories about their families, their work, their heartaches, their joys. They discuss their Asian identities and American habits. And they confess how hard it has been to walk an often lonely path. Says Mohip Joarder, 27, an Indian-American computer programmer from Spring Valley, N.Y., "I've never felt like there were people I could talk freely to about this stuff...
...seeds. Overall, the Crimson wrestlers put 22.5 points on the board, one-and-a-half point behind West Virginia. Illinois won the championship by accumulating 115.5 points. Harvard’s first tournament of the new year will be at Texas on Jan. 7, where it will face Utah Valley State, Chattanooga and Stanford in the Lone Star Duals...
...worst recorded earthquake, is accustomed to harsh conditions. But the American ex-surfer, who took up full-time volunteer work with the International Organization for Migration after he participated in relief efforts following the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has found his work especially frustrating in the devastated Neelum Valley, located in the Himalayan mountains in the Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley as he walked trails leading processions of porters toting pickaxes, shovels, bales of wire and plastic tarpaulins?the tools needed to build improvised shelters...
...freezing weather closes in on the Neelum Valley, which climbs to 2,425 m above sea level, George and legions of other relief workers are worried that their efforts won't be enough. The earthquake that ripped through Pakistan and India killed more than 75,000 and injured more than 128,000. It also left some 3.5 million people without livelihoods, food or homes. Short on supplies, and with time and nature working against them, aid workers are struggling to protect those survivors and prevent further deaths. "This is a perfect storm of relief obstructions," says Thomas Miller, chief executive...
...Karachi-based NGO the Edhi Foundation. "There is a shortage of doctors and nurses, so people now have to travel far to get to the doctors in makeshift medical camps." Because people have no money for fuel, they can't cook meals, adds Rana Khurshid Amed, a Neelum Valley forestry official, "so they look to the government and to God for help. It's only God who is there. Let's see how many people survive the snow...