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The Kilimanjaro Initiative

05/16/2008

| Anglais/English/Inglés, Geneva International

Last February, the Kilimanjaro Initiative organized its 2nd Annual Climb to promote safer cities and encourage young people to be agents of change in their communities. Youths from Kenya, Tanzania, United States and Switzerland, as well as various community stakeholders and United Nations agency staff, demonstrated how people can join forces in over-coming adversity by reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Tim Challen, a Geneva-based employee of the United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU),…

Alarm Clock

05/16/2008

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Poetry and Literature

Technologically Impaired Husband decides to lend Rather Important House Guest his state-of-the-art alarm clock (set alarm hand to hour required, pull out button, grope wildly and thump button to halt buzzer,) so that R.I.H.G. doesn’t miss his very early flight back home. T.I.H. proceeds to sleep soundly until 4 a.m. when he suddenly falls out of bed and hurls himself at the house phone to call guest and make sure the alarm has gone off. It has. T.I.H. then…