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Liberia's President Charles Taylor is not a happy man. Rebels based in neighboring Guinea regularly conduct raids across the border, while the United Nations recently announced an embargo on diamond exports from Liberia. Of course, the country has no diamonds of its own, but that's part of the problem: Taylor and his cronies stand accused of sponsoring the murderous, limb-chopping Revolutionary United Front rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, a country with bountiful diamond fields. Taylor, who escaped from an American prison before returning to Liberia and fighting a bloody "liberation" war, denies he backs...
...open the Tang family's refrigerator and see three Tiger beers inside. Why, I wonder, are 36 beers listed on the automated scanning device, which is designed to beam their grocery inventory to a local store? The Tangs - living guinea pigs in a prototype Internet home sponsored and heavily promoted by the Singaporean government - offer a sheepish explanation. Shortly before I arrived at their model apartment, they ran a bunch of grocery items through the scanner to make it look like they use it all the time. Eager to accommodate, they did so at the urging of the pair...
...situation is worsening. Guinea became the battlefield last fall as rebels from all three countries attacked and burned the refugee camps that line the country's southern borders. Everyone ran whichever way seemed away from the sounds of gunfire: south to Liberia, north to Guinea's interior and south to Sierra Leone. The 460,000 refugees, added to tens of thousands of newly displaced natives, amounted to a crisis...
...GOAL FOR NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO AID IN GUINEA...
...reunification. Schooling is an essential way to reduce the trauma of the refugee experience, and it's a crucial part of ending the cycle of poverty that afflicts many in West Africa. Your kit will open a place in schools to some of the 9,000 separated children in Guinea. Price...