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...Benguema agrees that leadership has been a problem. As has been "encouraging them to work as an effective, cohesive unit rather than a group of individuals." Fitness is also a worry. Official rations in the Sierra Leone army are a bread roll and coffee for breakfast and then some rice and beans in the later afternoon. That leaves the troops with "no reserves of energy" says Scarff...
...sapphire-mining company that, despite the appearance of its dirty, three-story office building on Sihom Street in Vientiane, seemed on the verge of success. Gem Mining Lao held sapphire mining concessions, estimated to be worth $100 million, in Bokeo province, a region of dense forest, green rice paddies and rusty tin shacks where farmers were known to find sapphires and rubies in the red earth after heavy rains. In the cozy world of expats in Vientiane the Danes came to know the owners, Bernie Jeppesen and Julie Bruns. They dined at the same restaurants, went to the same parties...
...have forgotten the road, but the signs are still there. Lurid azaleas and miniature topiary pines trace its zigzag route past new housefronts and tiny gardens. (The kinks and bends were originally designed to slow down cavalry attacks.) By the roadside are vegetable plots as well as piles of rice husks, which will be mixed with vinegar to pickle the crops. Shrines to the monk Jizo and the goddess Kannon, the travelers' protectors, promise safe passage and future discoveries...
...indiscriminately, often brutally. Ma'ruf abandoned his home and his car and fled with his family to a hastily erected refugee camp. As he left, he saw his neighbor beheaded. In the camp, people were terrified and starving. One of his children was nearly attacked for a handful of rice...
...been lifted because there was now a target. For the previous 10 years in Japan, we had less and less of everything. Kids dug up roots of pine trees and squeezed them for oil. Junior-high kids were forced to work in bomb factories. People had to give their rice cookers and frying pans to the government to make weapons...