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Life in the balance
I was sitting on the train, deep into my book, when suddenly the man across the aisle interrupted, `So how do you do it?' Startled, I glanced up....
For A Change, 08/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication -
Garbage collectors move mountains
At age 12, Samiya's future seemed bleak. She was filthy with swollen, nearly-blind eyes. Her family home was a garbage dump in Cairo. At age 12,...
For A Change, 06/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication -
Streams in the desert
Retired Canadian medical doctor Jim Carlisle awoke one December morning in his home in St Thomas with an unexpected thought--the plight of Mexican...
For A Change, 06/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication -
Lighting the darkness
Hazel Aicken well remembers her fear during June 1995 that the IRA ceasefire was about to collapse. `We just knew something was going to...
For A Change, 04/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication -
Still giving peace a chance: in 1970 a cleaner in Belfast's Gasworks had a dream - of Northern Ireland's women working together for peace
In 1970 a cleaner in Belfast's Gasworks had a dream--of Northern Ireland's women working together for peace. Twenty-seven years on, they're still...
For A Change, 04/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication -
New limbs, new lives
Thirteen-year-old Samnang Yem acts like any other young boy his age. He studies at school, plays volley-ball with his friends and helps his mother...
For A Change, 02/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication -
Rickshaws in Oxford
Ride a rickshaw around Oxford? Erica Steinhauer smiles gleefully. `Oxford is the quintessence of civilization. The words "rickshaw" and "Oxford"...
For A Change, 02/01/97 by Kristen Tiedje · More from publication
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