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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:29 AM
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The Illiterate Surgeon (NYT-Kristoff)
The Illiterate Surgeon

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: June 12, 2005

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia

Just about the worst thing that can happen to a teenage girl in this world is to develop an obstetric fistula that leaves her trickling bodily wastes, stinking and shunned by everyone around her. That happened four decades ago to Mamitu Gashe.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12kristof.html?incamp=article_popular_2
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Southsideirish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:48 AM
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1. Wonderful article. Why doesn't our globe trotting "1st woman" , Mz. Laura
take up this cause? What IS her "cause" anyway, I forget...
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