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...organization created in South Asia after the tsunami in 2004. In the Indonesian territory of Aceh, the worst-hit area, aid workers took five months to compile the names of about 3,000 displaced children, 240 of whom were eventually reunited with a parent. Hundreds more went to live with relatives whom aid workers found by going door to door and matching information about birthmarks and other identifying details. Marie de la Soudière, who is coordinating the Haitian registry, says that in the 30 years she has spent helping children in disaster and war zones around the globe...
That's when Philistin sprang into action. Working in conjunction with UNICEF, she started asking Kenzie questions about people he knew, where he went to school and what he liked to do. Eventually he mentioned a friend named Benito, and Philistin was able to track him down in Kenzie's neighborhood. Benito then led her to a house full of people he said were the boy's relatives. (See a brief history of baby lifts...
What does it tell us that female soldiers deployed overseas stop drinking water after 7 p.m. to reduce the odds of being raped if they have to use the bathroom at night? Or that a soldier who was assaulted when she went out for a cigarette was afraid to report it for fear she would be demoted - for having gone out without her weapon? Or that, as Representative Jane Harman puts it, "a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire...
...nonetheless find much within to hate about armed conflict. It would be hard not to. Based on interviews with 40 soldiers, most of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Untold War tells tales of mangled limbs and shattered minds, like one about an idealistic West Point prof who went to Iraq and took his own life in disillusionment. Given Sherman's training in psychoanalysis and philosophy, it is not surprising that her prose can grow alarmingly academic at times. (Many will not care that "the distance between an Aristotelian and Stoic-inspired training for war is considerable...
...last time the Harvard baseball team went two-for-three in its opening weekend, most of its current starters were in high school...