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By Kevin Cowherd | December 14, 2008
Here's the message I'm trying to get out to friends and acquaintances these days: Don't forward any more stupid Internet jokes to my in-box. Don't forward any more videos with the subject line "YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!" that show a frightened deer leaping across six lanes of interstate traffic or a cute 5-year-old landing a 600-pound shark on his dad's fishing boat. Don't forward another "HEALTH ALERT!" about the latest killer staph infection or another "COMPUTER ALERT!" about the latest virus that's going to wipe out my hard drive.
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By KEVIN COWHERD | April 28, 2008
I used to think no one in the whole world hated e-mail more than me, but that turns out to be wrong. Doctors, it seems, really hate e-mail. In fact, a new survey shows only 31 percent of doctors use e-mail to answer questions from patients outside the office. The rest still prefer the time-honored method of having a bored receptionist take your call, then calling you back days later, usually after your symptoms have subsided. According to a recent Associated Press article on the survey, there are lots of reasons doctors don't like e-mail.
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August 15, 2007
INSIDE TODAY WHAT THEY'RE SAYING TODAY'S SUN COLUMNISTS Product of `farm system' Rookie linebacker Antwan Barnes, a fourth-round draft pick from Florida International, looks to be the latest example of a player coming up through the "farm system" on the Ravens' defense. Sports baltimoresun.com/steele A jaw-dropping number What number of killings in a year will engender outrage in Baltimore? The columnist answers. Maryland baltimoresun.com/kane other voices Laura Vozzella on cellist, demolition -- Maryland Rob Kasper on the bounty of basil -- Taste 5 THINGS TO DO TODAY Poetry meeting -- At 7 p.m., check out Poet's Ink, a monthly meeting sponsored by the Maryland State Poetry and Literary Society.
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By NewHouse News Service | June 7, 2007
The millions spent on the trial could be spent on the people of Sierra Leone, to support the people who suffered. There are people for whom surviving is really hard. The wounds are in our minds." - MUCTARR JALLOH, 29, who moved to New York after enduring atrocities during the 10-year civil war in his native Sierra Leone, including the amputation of his right hand and ear, on the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, accused of arming and controlling rebels who raped, mutilated and enslaved civilians NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
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By Clarence Page | December 15, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Nothing concentrates your mind out in the back roads of rural Africa like having a kid from some rebel army hold you up at gunpoint with a large, Russian-made assault rifle. Rory Anderson, a senior Africa policy adviser for World Vision, a Washington-based Christian aid and development organization, knows that experience. It happened to her and a carload of colleagues in 2003 in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, near Uganda's border. "Suddenly I was both frightened and brokenhearted," Ms. Anderson recalled in an interview.
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By MARC SHAPIRO | June 22, 2006
SIERRA LEONE SERENADE The Refugee All-Stars of Sierra Leone, a six-musician group, came together at the Kalia Refugee Camp in Sierra Leone, on the border of Guinea. When rebel forces attacked Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, thousands of civilians were forced to flee. The group will perform a free outdoor concert of original songs written in exile Sunday at the Kennedy Center in Washington. After the concert there will be a free screening of the documentary The Refugee All-Stars, which chronicles a three-year period in which the band left the refugee camp to go back to Sierra Leone.
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By CLARENCE PAGE | May 16, 2006
CHICAGO -- A reporter asked Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf why she had come to America. She responded with five words that open doors, launch jetliners and move motorcades almost everywhere on the planet: "I was invited by Oprah." Of course, it is important to note that Ms. Sirleaf also was drawn by a humanitarian mission. She brought with her Musu Gertee, a 9-year-old Liberian girl who was fitted with a prosthetic replacement for the right arm and hand she lost in a rocket attack three years ago. Oprah Winfrey's staff alerted Ms. Sirleaf's government to Musu after the child was featured last year in a Chicago Tribune report about Liberia's young war victims.
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By JESSE LEAVENWORTH | May 12, 2006
Chimpanzees are supposed to be the "good" apes, cute and funny, the hairy little people depicted in thousands of films and TV shows. But recent news out of western Africa shows they can be brutally fierce. A chimp attacked and killed a Sierra Leone man who was driving Americans to a wildlife refuge last month. Another man lost part of his hand in the attack. Some news reports said a group of up to 20 chimps that had broken out of their enclosures gang-attacked the men, while other stories have pinned responsibility on one animal, possibly a chimp named Bruno, the undisputed alpha male of the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary.
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By ROBYN DIXON AND HANS NICHOLS | March 30, 2006
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Unshaven and looking haggard, Africa's most wanted war criminal, former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was placed in a detention cell at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone yesterday after his early-morning arrest while trying to flee Nigeria carrying large bags of cash. A U.N. helicopter carrying Taylor landed in the compound of the U.N. Special Court in Freetown. Taylor, handcuffed and wearing a bulletproof vest over a white tunic, stepped out and was bundled into a four-wheel-drive vehicle and driven about 100 yards to the door of the detention center.
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By J. PETER PHAM | March 29, 2006
The U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone unsealed an indictment nearly three years ago charging Liberian President Charles Taylor with 17 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law during that country's civil war. But he's still a free man. The indictment, handed down June 4, 2003, charges that Mr. Taylor "bears the greatest responsibility" for murder, rape, torture and the use...