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American Hearts Open Up to Some of World's Needs

By Peter Byrne

North Bay Bohemian | January 21, 2005

An aid worker is entranced by the contrast between the American public's empathetic response to the tsunami tragedy and its seeming indifference to the bloodletting in Iraq and Palestine.

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Tags: Elizabeth Stinson, Barbara Lubin, director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, director of the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County, United States Agency for International Development, USA Freedom Corps

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