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...Meeker, the war on terrorism has awakened a dormant activist spirit. She protested against the Vietnam War and marched against apartheid, but in recent years she has devoted her energies to raising her four children and teaching fourth grade in Brentwood, Tenn. After Sept. 11, disturbed by anti-Muslim sentiments voiced by her students, she assigned her class to make a quilt to send to the children of Afghanistan. The idea was so popular that Meeker quit her teaching job and founded Quilts for Peace, a nonprofit group that has sent 50 quilts to war zones around the world...
DIED. PHILIP BERRIGAN, 79, former priest whose fight against the Vietnam War and nuclear arms helped inspire a generation of antiwar dissenters; of cancer; in Baltimore, Md. Berrigan led the Catonsville Nine, which staged one of the era's most dramatic protests, dousing a bonfire of draft records with homemade napalm in a Catonsville, Md., parking...
When you're fighting in the jungle, malaria can be as deadly as artillery. So when China waged a brief war against Vietnam in 1979, Beijing issued its troops a crude anti-malarial pill based on a traditional Chinese medicine?and it worked. Today, hopes are high that a similar folk-remedy-derived treatment might help wipe out the disease. Scientists at the Mekong Malaria Symposium, held last week in Cambodia, announced that early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third...
...opportunity to participate in an education project in Vietnam this past summer, made possible by the Hal Dudley White/Andrew Sellard Traveling Fellowship, cemented his passion for education, said Dhand...
While on the trip, he helped develop a peer education model for HIV/AIDS in Vietnam...