The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 2, 2010; 9:05 AM
BERLIN — Three experts working to defuse a bomb from World War II were killed when the device exploded, injuring six others, police said Wednesday.
Some 7,000 residents from around the area in the central German town of Goettingen, where the 1100-pound (500-kilogram) heavy bomb was found, were...
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PROJECT PHONGSALI 2010
For the past three months, WHWV has labored in
Phongsali Province, Laos, helping villagers rid their fields
and gardens of unexploded ordnance left over from the
Indochina War. Thanks to the generosity of our
supporters, we were able to improve the lives of hundreds
of villagers. We...
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Day 70
Bits and Bobs:
Yai left his bag of sugar open and ants found it. Soon it was loaded with joyful ants. Rather than throw the sugar away, Yai simply put the open bag out in the sun. At the end of the day 99%...
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Day 69
In Laos, if you have a problem complete strangers will jump in to help. If you lack a tool, people will readily loan you one of theirs.
The other side of the coin is that if someone is in need you’d feel guilty walking...
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Day 68
It turned cool today, which is just fine with me since recent nights have been uncomfortably warm and humid. With no electricity to power a fan and a Noah’s ark of creeping, crawling and flying critters chasing me to the stifling safety of...
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Day 67
Last night the Tai Dam people in Sop Houn village began their annual festival, right on the heels of the enthusiastic Tai Deng celebration that consumed all of last weekend and spilled into the early part of this week. Interestingly, while the Tai...
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Day 66
Once again, our dinner was interrupted. Tonight, just as the cook set the sticky rice and fish soup on the table, two motorcycles rolled onto the hospital grounds. The fellow driving the lead bike called for help and we all bolted from the...
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Day 65
It was dinnertime and the guys were just about to belly up to a meal that I’d prepared with provisions from my box of emergency rations. It was nothing more than pasta swimming in canned, mushroom-flavored tomato sauce but I’d talked it up...
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Day 64
Five years ago Edmond Scientific, a science supply company, donated an “Astroscan Wide Field Telescope” to our project. I appealed for that unusual donation because I guessed that Lao teachers, lacking science books, media or equipment, would be hard-pressed to teach even the...
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