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...once averaged. But, when not at his home of 30 years in the Swiss wine-growing village of Bursins, he remains in perpetual motion. In addition to his U.N. work he chairs and partially funds the Geneva-based Global Harmony Foundation, whose projects have included a hospital in Niger for victims of Noma, a flesh-wasting disease, and three girls' schools in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region. "For Nepalese landmine victims we turn out wheelchairs in Kathmandu," says Ustinov. "Come to think of it, I could use one myself," he jokes, after a laborious landing in an armchair...
...father was a U.S. Foreign Services officer who, with his wife, transposed a family of two sons and two daughters from Asia to Europe to Africa and back. “We were the first Americans to drive by land from the Republic of Niger to Timbuktu,” recalls LaTeef. “We got lost along the way and arrived after three days of traveling, only to run straight into a family of tourists from New York.” Her four years in Cambridge were the longest LaTeef had ever spent living in one place...
...department, she went to Senegal to conduct thesis research on the effects of technological development on Senegalese women’s lives. She snuck in a side trip to visit friends she had made during her family’s earlier three-year stint in the Republic of Niger. It was there that she heard her stories, from the mouth of a woman griot (storyteller) who sat under the shade of a 30-foot-wide acacia tree...
...Prime Number 2 percent of babies in Niger are breast-fed exclusively up to the age of six months, one of the lowest rates in the world, according to UNICEF...
...book is a compilation of the sociological, etymological, legal and literary history of the word, which originates from the Latin word for black, niger. Kennedy traces the word from its usage in American literature, popular music and hip-hop culture to the legal profession’s treatment of the word during prominent cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial...