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...grew up in a small town in the Midwest. He went off to Harvard, where he majored in economics, but found greater meaning in classic literature and philosophy. Eventually he chucked academia, moving to a Massachusetts farmhouse "to live a life of spiritual practice and writing." This life plan struck his parents as an enlightened pathway to material nowhere. His mother suggested that he try accounting. For the next 13 years, Kinder worked as a CPA, building a broad base of clients in Cambridge whom he attracted with flyers he attached to windshields on frosty mornings. Now and then...
Matt George, one of the tens of thousands of aid workers who headed to Pakistan after it was struck on Oct. 8 by its worst recorded earthquake, is accustomed to harsh conditions. But the American ex-surfer, who took up full-time volunteer work with the International Organization for Migration after he participated in relief efforts following the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has found his work especially frustrating in the devastated Neelum Valley, located in the Himalayan mountains in the Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley...
...scene in many villages, getting there far quicker than the Pakistani army, and they applied their expertise in first aid to save injured people pulled from fallen buildings. Their knowledge of the saw-backed ranges along the Line of Control has made it possible for them to reach quake-struck hamlets bypassed by the big aid agencies...
...TIME: I was struck by the meeting between Bobby Kennedy and Johnson when basically Kennedy is trying to elicit an endorsement [in his run for the Presidency...
...Darfur region, only 30,000 have official refugee status in Egypt. The rest are in legal limbo, hoping to be allowed to migrate to Europe or America, but stymied by local authorities and, in their eyes, the United Nations commission on refugees. On Dec. 30, as 2005 ended, tragedy struck in a very unbrotherly...