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	<title>The Elephant Cloud &#187; Darlene Nastansky</title>
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		<title>Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters: Chapter III</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from Chapter Two of Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters Chapter Three A small unlocked Nokia cell phone with an Ethiopian SIM card floats between the white pockets of Dr. Philippa and myself. The number is scribbled on paper taped in the maternity ward. We are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters: Chapter II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from Chapter One of Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters Chapter Two Without running water, sterility is difficult and conservation is everything, even during surgery. Faded green gowns and drapes, homesewn lap sponges, recycled tubing, everything in the operating room is used again and again. We enter building 24, the operating theater. A clear plastic apron, battered [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia’s Daughters: Chapter I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter One ‘You want a picture?’ he asked as we drove to the edge of the desolate canyon. ‘How about now? You don’t have camera?’ ‘Later,’ I told him, ‘When we come back, when we return home.’ ‘You sure? You sure you return home?’ he laughed. That was a good question since I was wondering [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to African soil- Addis Ababa, old friends and roosters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows down, hot air plastering dust over smiles, the traffic is chaos with horns blaring as we pull into the city of Addis Ababa. We have returned to Ethiopia. Danny, our taxi driver, shouts over the mix of local hip-hop and Michael Jackson, inviting us to a bunna bet or coffee ceremony at his sisters [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Footsteps To Healing</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2010/11/footsteps-to-healing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“And they all knew just the cure for what ailed them: an injection … [It] was cheap, and it’s effect was instantaneous, with patients grinning and skipping down the hill.” Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone]]></description>
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		<title>Walls</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2010/05/walls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why do you want to venture into the West Bank?&#8220; Ominous 25ft walled gates wrapped in barbed wire and torn plastic bags escorted my crossing. Passport control, one-way turnstile, another passport control.  An endless reminder of entering somewhere forbidden, dangerous as I cleared each security check, until the last gates opened and I entered Bethlehem,  [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When Antibiotics Aren&#8217;t Enough</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2010/04/when-antibiotics-arent-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loaded with drugs, dental tools, used reading glasses and medical supplies, the Land Cruiser sat idle as ten Ethiopians, Americans and a Britt wedged their bodies into the vehicle, vying for cramped space. We were headed an hour west into remote Ethiopia, close to Sudan’s border, where an under-stocked, dilapidated clinic waited our arrival. Satellite [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomb Raiders of the Lost Cairo</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2010/03/tomb-raiders-of-the-lost-cairo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filmed on location in Egypt, 2010. Some people tour the tombs with a guide, some people go without a guide and some people hire the right girls to get the job done.]]></description>
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		<title>Kampala’s stork splatterings</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2010/03/kampala%e2%80%99s-stork-splatterings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York has the ubiquitous pigeon, Kampala has Marabou storks. Uganda’s stately birds reach the height of a six year old stumbling around in a tattered waiter’s suit while the wing spans almost nine feet. Resembling old men in contemplation, the birds keep a tight eye on the patrons in the nation’s capital from telephone [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>An overnight bus and twenty hours later- Uganda</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2010/03/an-overnight-bus-and-twenty-hours-later-uganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[East African boarders, overland. Tales of seedy characters, red-eyed border patrol, machine guns wasting in corners, dank corridors. Stories abound, we prepared for the worst, three borders in twenty hours, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. “You will be here,  at the station, 2:30? we,” the voice breaks, unclear. I step from the loud bar, “But the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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