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Out of the Cyclone, Seeds of Change in Burma

By Lev Weinstein, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 23, 2008 6:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – In the wake of the ruling junta's efforts to waylay foreign aid following May's Cyclone Nargis, Burmese citizens—including former political prisoners—created a grass-roots relief effort to help the embattled populace. In doing so, writes George Packer in the New Yorker, they may have... Read full story »

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