africa
click to play1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: On their way from Germany to Cape Town, Team C2C hits serious mud and water business in Botswana's Chobe National Park - Impossible is nothing!
1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: Yossi Vassa and Tehitina Assefa consider themselves Israeli. They grew up there and call the country home. But their roots are in Ethiopia. Now they're performing in a play, called <em>One of a Kind</em>, about the Ethiopian-Israeli experience. They share their story and the experience of bringing it to the stage.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: A young Zimbabwean professional, living and working in Harare, recounts her challenges trying to lead a normal life.
A redot from Mel I am very proud to share with those who didn't catch it already.
1 FaverShareViewed: 9 TimesQuoted: Dianne Slager, a nurse practitioner who has taught at Calvin for three years, will use the Nagel funds to travel to Liberia in late May of 2008 to assess knowledge and attitudes about HIV/AIDS among church leaders and to evaluate the HIV/AIDS information programs they offer.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before coming back, a study says.
This is fun. I got 35. Beat that. Liz showed it to me but she could not beat that.
1 FaverShareViewed: 16 TimesI haven't made it all the way through this yet. What I've read so far is great. Dad, you might want to pass it along to Mom (and Leah, since she doesn't appear to spend much time here anymore) (both of whom are also returning to Liberia after a long time away).
Quoted: I was going back, finally doing something I should have done a thousand different times since that night, May 16, 1980, when my mother, my younger sister, Marlene, and I got on a Pan Am flight at Robertsfield and fled the place that my great-great-great-great-grandfather helped found.
1 FaverShareViewed: 8 TimesQuoted: Because of him, I would not grow up, 150 years later, as an American black girl, burdened by racial stereotypes about welfare queens. Nor would I have to deal with the weights of a sub-Saharan African girl, with a life expectancy of about 40 years, yanked out of school at 11 to fetch water and cook over a coal pot and rear children barely younger than herself.
Free prison penpals - male and female prisoners from England, America and other countries looking for penfriends. Free to everyone to use
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A public experiment that was better in theory than in practice: "In the end, the restrooms, installed in early 2004, had become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city’s most destitute people refused to step inside them."
2 FaversViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: After spending $5 million, Seattle officials decided to close the city’s five automated public toilets, which had become filthy and costly.
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politics
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This is exactly the right thing to do.
1 FaverViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Greg Mortenson has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as much as the Bush administration to help fight terrorism in Pakistan. Instead of blowing things up, he builds schools.
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