Word: warring
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...Great and enduring photojournalism is one of the hallmarks of TIME, and our distinctive photo-essays go back to World War II combat photography. Pollack's team spent the past several months combing through thousands of images, searching for pictures that give extra insight into the events of 2009. We looked for impact, like Dennis M. Sabangan's photo of people displaced by floods in the Philippines; for surprises, like the shot Kate Westaway took of a playful humpback whale while she was snorkeling; and for poetry, like Douglas Mills' resonant picture of the Kennedy family at the burial...
...screen momentarily as he vainly sought to ascertain the lake bed's true elevation - 10,200 ft. Even though both planes had the correct altitude displayed on multiple displays, the four officers calibrated their strafing runs based on the erroneous lower number. (Watch a slideshow of the war in Afghanistan...
Nearly everything is a sad reminder for Mélida Arredondo: the news on TV, stories in the paper, speeches of Barack Obama and others who talk about a war that seems to have lasted so long and affected so many lives, those lost as well as those left behind...
...disappointed in Obama," Mélida Arredondo says. "I thought, 'I've heard this before, from Bush.' He wasn't as passionate as he usually is. He sounded like a professor. I want to hear him talk about the cost of these wars. I want a discourse about a war tax. I want people to have some skin in the game...
Apart from this nexus of Ugandan conservatism and exported ideology from America's culture war, the other underlying presence was Western money. The U.S. President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, gave $285 million to HIV and AIDS programs in Uganda. Among the recipients was Ssempa's Campus Alliance to Wipe Out AIDS, which runs abstinence programs. The Campus Alliance is a subpartner of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, which got $15 million from PEPFAR. Meanwhile, Langa's Family Life Network has received money from the U.N.-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria...