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...United Nations has estimated that 200,000 children under the age of 15 are bearing arms around the world. The Salvadoran army has forcibly conscripted boys not yet 18, while soldiers as young as 13 have sworn allegiance to Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. But most child warriors belong to rebel groups, where how much they fight depends on how desperately their services are needed. The mujahedin of Afghanistan have boys as young as + nine battling Kabul. In Burma twelve-year-olds are recruited by the Karen rebels to defend their jungle territory. In El Salvador the F.M.L.N...
Even though the Undergraduate Council has pledged its support, students involved with E4D say that they still bear the burden of organizing the fundraising efforts...
...many of his countrymen. Every bit as significant as what he said was an almost eerie serenity rooted in absolute certitude about his course. "My confidence," he said, "comes from knowing that what we're doing is right and necessary. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to bear the burden...
...increasing number of unwanted children are being sent back to agencies. Who should bear the heavy emotional and financial burden...
...drove farmers to abandon their land and livestock, swarms of once docile domestic pigs and their offspring returned to the wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense of smell, vicious temperament and high birthrate -- sows can bear litters of up to 15 young four times a year -- the beasts are a formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production by half. But hunters risk their lives if they...