I imagine a couple I’ve never met. The father left 5th grade when the principal ordered him to fight for the local warlord or leave. He grows vegetables on a muddy, rented plot.  He abandoned his baby. The mother survived relocation camps and returned home to Bong County. She voted for the first female President in Africa. She looks like Oprah ( Read more... )

I was playing baseball with a bunch of kids in a typical Liberian playing field, i.e. burned-out buildings, rubble, trash everywhere. We’re always standing in trash.

I didn’t start out playing baseball. I was a security guard. I stood just outide of a courtyard. Whoever I worked for had organized a race. Everyone was supposed to stay inside the ( Read more... )

Mefloquine is an orally administered antimalarial drug used prophylactically against and as a treatment for malaria. It also goes by the trade name Lariam or Mefaquin and by the chemical name mefloquine hydrochloride (formulated with HCl). Mefloquine was developed in the 1970s at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the U.S. as a synthetic ( Read more... )

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