Operation Smile adds team from Union Memorial Hospital to roster It wasn’t long after Dr. James Higgins became chief of the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital last January when he answered a call from Operation Smile, the Norfolk-based humanitarian group that provides free surgery for needy children with facial deformities.

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The much-anticipated Kathmandu Literary Jatra began at the historic Patan Durbar Square Friday. The three day festival brings together national and international writers and thinkers to publicly engage on issues related to Nepal and South Asia, including an appreciation of Nepal’s varied literatures and their authors. Sujeev Shakya, the chairman of the festival and President of Nepal Economic …

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Reading from the abstracts of papers from other participants and guest speakers for this Conference, the idea of ‘access to justice’, as a theme to improve work on torture prevention and rehabilitation of victims is given strong importance. To lay the basic …

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