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Voluntourism trips are shorter, more entertaining versions of the kind of international work long sponsored by the likes of church missions and the Peace Corps. During trips that can be as short as a day and usually don't last longer than three weeks, work--which is often physically intensive...
But a simpler answer may lie in that writers who have relationships with the couple are expected to produce juicier observations than those on the outside. Blatchford, who says she stopped covering the trial because she was bored, scoffed at the notion that she was part of Black's "retinue...
Missing from that list are works dealing with the developed West. Kapuscinski's sympathies lay with the wretched of the earth - the patient, plodding masses of countries suffused with sunshine and suffering. He began his career at a time when former colonies in Asia and Africa were gaining their independence...
Finally, scientists have invented a contraceptive pill that does away with a woman’s period entirely. Lybrel, the new pill, can be taken continuously without the monthly bleed that most pills require and, since its approval last month by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it now seems...
Nigeria: Wretched Excess Tom Pullo looks like a fighter. His chest is a barrel, his forearms are all muscle. Seeing him at breakfast at the Agura Hotel in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, a place favored by foreign oil executives, you might take him for a security guard protecting his charges...