A mother listens to doctors at a children's cancer ward in Baghdad. The hospital is grossly understaffed, and mothers must look after their own children. This 4-year-old girl suffers from leukemia. According to the Red Cross, an average of 1,145 leukemia patients have died each year from 1992 to 1998. That's up from an average of 300 deaths per year between 1978 and 1991, before the Gulf war and the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq after its defeat.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
