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...video showed U.S. firepower on brutal display, this time from the gunsight of an AH-64 Apache helicopter, as the crew converses casually about those they are about to kill. It appears to show the pilots mistakenly identifying a man carrying a camera - 22-year-old Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, along with his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40 - as armed insurgents, and then blowing them and 10 others to smithereens in July...
...These, he learned, were kodokushi, or "lonely deaths." Now he has seen plenty - these deaths make up 300 of the 1,500 cleaning jobs performed by his company each year. The people die alone, sprawled on the floor beside crumpled clothing and dirty dishes, tucked beneath flowery bedspreads, slouched against the wall. Months - even years - can pass before somebody notices a body. On occasion, all that's left are bones. "The majority of lonely deaths are people who are kind of messy," says Yoshida. "It's the person who, when they take something out, they don't put it back...
...Building a business around the dead, as Yoshida has, is an unglamorous and oft-maligned profession, as depicted in Departures, the Japanese film that won an Oscar last year for Best Foreign Film, which follows an unemployed cellist who takes a job getting corpses ready for funerals. "The film has created interest in this profession," says Ichinose, "but most people still tend to avoid the topic...
...easy, intimate get-together, more intuitive to many young mothers-to-be than one-on-one encounters with unfamiliar healthcare professionals. The neonatal mortality rate in the intervention areas, according to the data collected, dropped by a whopping 47% by the project's end in 2008. The entire three years cost organizers just $300,000, and participation rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur, a 23-year-old from Keonjhar district in Orissa, lost her first baby to a bacterial infection. She began attending...
...Institute of Child Health teamed up to stage a regional intervention that would show moms how they could themselves reduce this risk. Their plan was to mobilize a few thousand women from a clutch of villages in one Orissa and two Jharkhand districts as part of a three-year trial (2005 to 2008). A similar project in the mountainous Makwanpur region of Nepal, where health facilities can easily be a six-hour walk away, required the Institute to organize local women into groups. In east India, it rallied an existing structure of "self-help groups," a national network of rural...