Sociotherapy took me out of my solitude

Sociotherapy took me out of my solitude.

I am fifty-eight years old. I have been a widow since 1995. Because of the ethnic conflicts that reigned in Rwanda over a period of many years, I grew up and lived in different neighbouring countries. I returned to Rwanda in 1992, at the age of thirty-eight. I was born into a family of six children, four of whom died during the genocide. Only one sister and I are still alive. I married my husba...

Sharing my problems soothed my headaches and took me out of loneliness.

My name is Berthilde Uwimbabazi. I come from the Eastern Province, where I was born in 1960, one of 11 children of my farming parents. I married my husband in 1977. We had five children. When the genocide took place, it found us in Bugesera District. My parents, seven brothers and two of my sisters were all killed. Only one of my sisters and I escaped. However, I also lost my husband and four c...

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

s you'll see, no one can argue that the new and improved Rabbit 3000 8-bit micro doesn't live up to the latter expectation. How new it is, though, is another question. The silicon may be hot off of the assembly line, but the 3000 has roots that go way back. Flash back to the mid-'70s. Messrs, Faggin, Shima, Mazor, et al of Intel sit down to craft a follow-on to their 4004 calculator chip and 80...

ME and My Shadow

Everyone Exposed to Methyleugenol Whether you intend to or not, chances are you will consume approximately 6 micro-grams of methyleugenol (ME) today, according to a report in this month's issue by Dana B. Barr and colleagues of a study designed to measure ME in human blood _ serum [EHP 108:323-328]. ME is a compound that occurs naturally in a variety of spices and herbs, including clove oil, nu...

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