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...full-fledged famine. "It's very bizarre," says Jean de Cambry, a Belgian MSF veteran of crises from Sudan to Afghanistan. "It's so green. But you have all these people dying of hunger." The verdure around Kuyera is misleading. It is the product of rains in June, too late for the first of two annual crops. From January to May, the fields were parched and brown. And one failed harvest is enough to turn Ethiopia, a nation of 66 million farmers, into a humanitarian catastrophe...
Surviving Disaster "How to Survive a Disaster," [june 23] was wrong about fire-drill requirements in New York City. The idea that the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) opposes such drills is also completely false. REBNY has consistently supported mandatory, semiannual fire drills, as well as evacuation drills. Because of the danger involved with having people travel down as many as 40 to 60 flights of stairs, and after learning that two heart attacks had resulted, the industry - working with the fire department - agreed that drills shouldn't require walking all the way to the street. Instead, drills...
Boundless Abilities I found your obituary for Harriet McBryde Johnson incredibly ironic [June 23]. A woman who spent her life advocating for the rights and respect for people with disabilities was referred to as "suffering" from her disorder and "bound to a wheelchair." While most people working in special education and other areas of disability advocacy have adopted the practice of using "person-first" language (not referring to people by their disability or capitalizing on sensational statements like "suffering"), the media consistently lag behind. We should not presume that a person with a particular disability "suffers"; in fact, she used...
...Klerk, who also served as deputy president under Mandela, has begun a campaign to highlight what he claims is ANC abuse of power. "Everywhere the dividing lines between the state and the ruling movement are becoming more blurred," De Klerk told the Cape Town Press Club in June. The "rights and values" which he and Mandela enshrined in the country's 1994 constitution, "are under severe pressure," he said. It says something for how far the ANC has fallen from the moral high ground that in today's South Africa, a former apartheid ruler can re-invent himself...
...France had unilaterally and unfairly changed the rules on rehabilitated radicals. In recent weeks appeals for special consideration for Petrella have struck considerably close to home for French President Nicolas Sarkozy - and may have been partially responsible in altering the position of justice officials towards Petrella's case. In June, Sarkozy's Italian-born wife Carla Bruni told the daily Libération that Petrella "is ill, and should be cared for the way any human should. And prison isn't the ideal place for that". The following month, Bruni's older sister, actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, visited Petrella...