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...just read this online. No details reported yet. He was 58. NY Post

I'm not sure if anyone has been following these, but it is certainly of interest to me. I have several friends from Zimbabwe, and the worsening economic and political conditions are of great concern. Inflation is running somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 percent. Basic food stuffs are...

Ok, I'm seriously thrilled about this. Several of the volunteers that I worked with while a volunteer in Mali ended up staying in Africa and working on various projects with other groups. One of them just forwarded this press release to me this morning. I can't really describe how happy and...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070802/ap_on_re_us/minnesota_bridge_collapse I used to drive over this thing all the time. My brother lives very close to it, and I haven't been able to get ahold of him yet. :|

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Workers evacuated a building at NASA's Johnson Space Center and police surrounded it on Friday after reports that a man with a gun was spotted and shots were fired, authorities said. NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said it was not known if anyone was hurt and Kelly Humphries...

Anyone else going to see this one? :hyper: I must say that I had no idea who the heck Daniel Craig was, but from what I've seen so far, he might be just the shot in the arm the franchise needs. In any case, I'm looking forward to seeing it when I get back from India. :drool:

:ohmy: I don't know if I've ever heard of this. On one hand, I think it's about time. We're bombarded with enough messages that the "ideal" woman is a size 2, and the reality is that a good number of us never will be (and couldn't be even if we tried). It would be refreshing to see...

Although I was not close friends with either of these volunteers, I did know them. I helped lead some of the training sessions when Justin was a new volunteer, and he was part of our "team Koulikoro" region. Matt joined the Bamako area group just as I was leaving, and I remember him as being a...

I remember meeting the user who goes by Madelyniris several years ago in the old interference chatroom and talking with him about his daughter. It was the first time I had heard of this condition called alopecia which causes hair loss and which has no known cure. Since then, I've always thrown...

Yep, after two years that have both flown by and crawled by, my stint in the Peace Corps will soon be over. It’s been an interesting time, full of memories good and bad, experiences hard and marvelous. My first time in Africa but I’m sure not my last time. As the subject of the less-developed...

Below is some of the text of an address given by Bill Moyers at Union Theological Seminary on the fourth anniversary of 9/11. I think there are several interesting strands of thought that could be discussed. Freedom of religion, state-sponsored religion, giving into the fear of terrorism, and...

Bolded parts are my emphasis. What do you all make of this?

Lately, I have been having very vivid and strange dreams. Most likely this is a result of the fact that I'm under a lot of stress and at a crossroads in my life but also because I'm on some high-powered meds to kill an African illness which was lurking in my system. :huh: All that to say, for...

I heard this story on the BBCWorldservice last night and thought it was interesting and might merit an FYM discussion. Here's the gist of it and a link to the full article. So, what do you all think? Good idea, bad idea or just too utopic? I find myself of several opinions at the same time...

I heard about the initial arrest of the director of MSF in Sudan yesterday but it was only today I read that it didn't stop there. This is really a sad commentary on how low the Sudanese government is willing to stoop to sabatoge those who are trying to help their people.

Like the title says. I think (although I am not positive) that I might be the only active poster who is living in Africa. And seeing as a lot of information and disinformation seems to pop up as regards this vast continent, I thought I would offer my humble services to answer any questions...

On Sunday night there was a World Cup qualifying match held here in Bamako, Mali against Togo. We had been warned ahead of time to not be anywhere near the stadium as big matches like that have been known to get a bit rowdy in the past. My boyfriend and I went out into town to get some money...

This will probably be a bit scatterbrained of a post but I am so excited I just have to share. A week ago, I just happened to pass by one of my workplaces, the tourism office, where I haven't spent much time recently due to being busy at my other office. And randomly, I went up to talk to the...

Just a quick shout out to all my fellow women across the globe on this day. May we continue to make progress towards true equality for all of our sisters around the world. :hug:

Greetings fellow GIS posters. :) I have a question or maybe one could say problem that I would really appreciate feedback on. I know that I haven't been posting here much in the last year since I moved to Africa (for obvious reasons...not as much internet availability) but I wanted to take the...

I don't know if anyone is aware of this, but there is a swarm of locusts covering an area of approximately the USA coming towards us here in Sub-Saharan Africa. They eat everything green in sight and destroy crops. It could be quite a threat for the people here if they were to lose this year's...

...try wearing traditional West African garments to a coffee break in England and watch everyone stare and try not to be obvious in wondering what kind of planet you're from. lol. Hi all. I've just popped over to Europe for a quick vacation from my African life and as my dad has a digital...

Check out my journal for the complete story on my meeting and hanging out with this excellent Malian musician, but I just had to post a couple of piccies here because he's a cutiepie. :D this one is too big to post

So I just got back from Timbuktu. I guess that with all the travelling I have done in my short life, going to the "end of the world" is an obvious thing, but if you had told me a year ago that I would have the opportunity, I wouldn't have believed it. It was an amazing time. I rode a camel in...