Word: westerner
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...soldier beating the 12-year-old boy ignores context, we ask, Under what circumstances can an armed soldier legitimately attack a young boy? However, they do raise a point which we believe is crucial to an understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: decontextualized violence often comes across in Western media as barbaric outbursts of terrorism, when in fact they are tragic reactions to the systematic violence that has been inflicted upon Palestinians from the inception of the colonial state of Israel in 1948 to the present. This foundational injustice must never be forgotten. Mohammad Al-Ississ '99, Amahl Bishara...
...people of Garden City, Kans., have always lived at the end of the world. In the 1870s and '80s, wagon trains plodded along the Santa Fe Trail for a month or more from Kansas City, on the state's eastern edge, to the scrappy little community near its western border. Even today the trip takes eight mind-numbing hours by car. No wonder Garden City (pop. 24,072) and hundreds of other rural communities in western Kansas have had a tough time persuading physicians to come and set up a practice. In fact, more than half the state...
Aviation maps list Duar, a sprawling agglomeration of African huts, as Dwil Keil--the "lone house." In retrospect, the description sounds ominously prophetic. Located in south Sudan's western Upper Nile region, Duar found itself at the epicenter of a deadly epidemic--one of the least publicized to hit Africa in recent decades--that raged through the late 1980s and the 1990s. Of Duar's more than 1,000 original inhabitants, only four were left alive. The epidemic also took the lives of more than 100,000 people in the surrounding region...
Although the epidemic in Sudan involved a known disease, it was complicated by the fact that for a long time no one knew the outbreak was occurring. The western Upper Nile is one of the world's most remote areas. It has almost no roads, and the Nuer ethnic group that populates it is extremely isolated. To make matters worse, the Islamic fundamentalist-influenced government in Khartoum was engaged in a civil war with the people of the south, where Christianity and traditional African religions prevail. Displacement caused by the war and famines had further weakened the population...
...next big epidemic in Sudan will probably be sleeping sickness. The African trypanosome parasite that causes it is a distant cousin of the kala-azar protozoan. Infection rates in some villages in Western Equatoria, just south of the western Upper Nile, are already running at 20%. Experts question whether the disease can be treated without hospitalization--an option that, because of the large numbers infected, is out of the question. It is the kind of impossible field-medical problem that is tailor-made for Jill Seaman, and she has already indicated that she would like to get involved...