Comments on: In pictures http://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2006/05/23/in-pictures/ Share your views on hot topics Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Sammi Fredenburg http://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2006/05/23/in-pictures/#comment-3930 Sammi Fredenburg Tue, 23 May 2006 18:26:55 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2006/05/23/in-pictures/#comment-3930 thank you for these photos. bono on the NBC today show this morning says he sees the american dream in these people . . . . no one else has ever seen it from that perspective, and i believe he's right! and that the corrupt africa is the old africa, they are not being supported or their debts forgiven. i love the encouragement of a new africa. we and they can do it together. this morning i heard a a phrase that i've embraced concerning this work here. we see lots of love and hate in the replies. there is a thin line between love and hate - what is worse is the indifference. we need to do what we can to turn around, as bono calls it, the supertanker of indifference. i will do all i can. stay close, sammi fredenburg seattle, washington, usa thank you for these photos. bono on the NBC today show this morning says he sees the american dream in these people . . . . no one else has ever seen it from that perspective, and i believe he’s right! and that the corrupt africa is the old africa, they are not being supported or their debts forgiven. i love the encouragement of a new africa. we and they can do it together.

this morning i heard a a phrase that i’ve embraced concerning this work here. we see lots of love and hate in the replies. there is a thin line between love and hate - what is worse is the indifference. we need to do what we can to turn around, as bono calls it, the supertanker of indifference. i will do all i can.

stay close,
sammi fredenburg
seattle, washington, usa

]]> By: George W. Murray http://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2006/05/23/in-pictures/#comment-3915 George W. Murray Tue, 23 May 2006 15:39:09 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/ask/2006/05/23/in-pictures/#comment-3915 One must feed the mind and body. The decided absence of suitable textbooks and reading material in underdeveloped countries, such as Afghanistan, will only serve to leave the door open for extremist groups, who rob the population of any chance of intellectual survival. Drop books not bombs! One must feed the mind and body. The decided absence of suitable textbooks and reading material in underdeveloped countries, such as Afghanistan, will only serve to leave the door open for extremist groups, who rob the population of any chance of intellectual survival. Drop books not bombs!

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