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Nairobi
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  • In Nairobi he had met a woman.   (source)
  • What would happen if they heard about it in Nairobi?   (source)
  • It already happened to my friend, Nairobi, when she was only nine years old.†   (source)
  • The first plane flew from Nairobi to Frankfurt, in a country called Germany.†   (source)
  • Salva could hardly believe his eyes when he boarded the plane in Nairobi.†   (source)
  • "I've notified the hospital in Nairobi to see about a doctor keeping an eye on your hospital.†   (source)
  • The taxi pulls out onto the Uhuru Highway and heads into Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Nairobi's infrastructure and sophistication dwarfed that of Addis.†   (source)
  • As we left Nairobi, we traveled along the Athi River with its thick grasses and herds of animals.†   (source)
  • Why escape Addis, flee Asmara, get out of Khartoum, and abandon Nairobi, only to face this?†   (source)
  • She insisted that he be taken to Nairobi for treatment.†   (source)
  • It was too far for the Africans in the bush to go all the way into Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Thomas Stone had come to Nairobi when he fled Ethiopia with his demons chasing him.†   (source)
  • He had money; he understood he had to get to Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Nairobi taxi drivers like to chat with their fares, and this one probably asks if he is sick.†   (source)
  • Is there someone in Nairobi who could contact the board?†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, I flew to Nairobi, and I talked with David Silverstein, the kid's doctor.†   (source)
  • I wonder if you would be kind enough to inform the officials in Nairobi.†   (source)
  • We heard that the hospitals in Nairobi were so crowded, they were not accepting patients.†   (source)
  • When I visited Nairobi, years later, no one remembered where the grave was.†   (source)
  • When I went into Nairobi with my parents to McKinnon's store, it was by oxcart.†   (source)
  • She was a student at a private school in Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Make yourself comfortable while Mr. Pritchard calls Nairobi.†   (source)
  • One night, at two o'clock in the morning, Silverstein's telephone rang at his home in Nairobi.†   (source)
  • There was no time to take her into Nairobi.†   (source)
  • I didn't think they would be happy in the city of Nairobi without their families.†   (source)
  • Perhaps to the native hospital in Nairobi, but their families would not be able to accompany them.†   (source)
  • I can't tell you how many in Nairobi are ill.†   (source)
  • The government men in Nairobi would say we took you away.†   (source)
  • I had seen it once in Nairobi, with Mrs. Pritchard and her daughter riding in the back.†   (source)
  • He had once been to Nairobi and had seen the three-story hotel.†   (source)
  • But medical successes-and research laboratories in Nairobi and São Paulo-had left the TDL a much less important place than it once was.†   (source)
  • They rode in a truck from the Ifo refugee camp to a processing center in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.†   (source)
  • In 1987, partly as a result of Allan's landmark article in The Lancet, a UN conference convened in Nairobi to launch the Safe Motherhood Initiative; the goal was to "reduce maternal mortality by 50 percent by the year 2000.†   (source)
  • He went via Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Jet flights from Rome, London, Frankfurt, Nairobi, Cairo, and Bombay to Addis made it easy for tourists to visit.†   (source)
  • A Ghanaian woman, whose flowered gown and headcloth had made her look so regal when she boarded in Nairobi, walked out from Customs beside me.†   (source)
  • It was as if in Ethiopia, and even in Nairobi, people assumed that all illness—even a trivial or imagined one—was fatal; they expected death.†   (source)
  • IN NAIROBI, Mr. Eli Harris, whose Houston church had been the pillar of Missing's support for years, had arranged room for me at a mission clinic.†   (source)
  • CAPTAIN GETACHEW SELASSIE— no relation to the Emperor— piloted the East African Airways 707 that flew me out of Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Eli Harris clearly knew what he was doing, because as soon as I applied, a telegram had arrived in Nairobi from Popsy (or perhaps it was from Sister Magda) inviting me to interview.†   (source)
  • He has the largest private medical practice in East Africa, and it has made him a famous figure in Nairobi.†   (source)
  • He had died a day or so earlier at Nairobi Hospital with a combination of extreme symptoms that suggested an unidentified Level 4 virus.†   (source)
  • Nairobi was lush and green like Addis Ababa, the grass pushing up between pavement tiles as if the jungle seethed underneath the city, ready to take over.†   (source)
  • And Indians: in some parts of Nairobi you could imagine you were in Baroda or Ahmedabad with sari emporiums ten to a street, chat shops everywhere, the pungent scent of masala in the air, and Gujarati the only language spoken.†   (source)
  • The road to Mount Elgon heads northwest from Nairobi into the Kenya highlands, climbing through green hills that bump against African skies.†   (source)
  • He was opened up in the main operating theater at Nairobi Hospital by a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Imre Lofler.†   (source)
  • Today he is one of the leading physicians at Nairobi Hospital, where he practices as a member of David Silverstein's group.†   (source)
  • When he learned what Marburg virus does to human beings, Dr. David Silverstein persuaded the Kenyan health authorities to shut down Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • He telephoned a friend and colleague in Kenya named Dr. Peter Tukei, who was a scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi.†   (source)
  • Nurses and aides came running, pushing a gurney along with them, and they lifted Charles Monet onto the gurney and wheeled him into the intensive care unit at Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • He confided to me, "A Kikuyu from Nairobi visited the shambas and spoke of 'Africa for the Africans.'†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pritchard was to accompany me on the train that would take me on the overnight trip from Nairobi to Mombasa, where I would board the ship.†   (source)
  • Half a year after Peter Cardinal died, in the spring of 1988, Gene showed up in Nairobi with twenty shipping crates full of biohazard gear and scientific equipment.†   (source)
  • It was the last place I wanted to go, but I had to let the authorities in Nairobi know we had no doctor here.†   (source)
  • Unable to diagnose himself, in severe pain, and unable to continue with his work, he presented himself to Dr. Antonia Bagshawe, a physician at Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • It goes through grassland studded with honey-acacia trees, and it goes past factories, and then it comes to a rotary and enters the bustling street life of Nairobi.†   (source)
  • When I thought of a city, I thought of Nairobi, with its two or three unpaved roads and its handful of government buildings and stores.†   (source)
  • An official from the government in Nairobi came and said the hospital would be closed and everyone must leave.†   (source)
  • What had happened at Nairobi Hospital was an isolated emergence, a microbreak of a rain-forest virus with unknown potential to start an explosive chain of lethal transmission in the human race.†   (source)
  • Medicines and surgical equipment were waiting for me in Nairobi, and so was my automobile, a Ford truck that I could use to carry supplies to Tumaini.†   (source)
  • The taxi turns left onto the Ngong Road and goes past a city park and up a hill, past lines of tall blue-gum trees, and it turns up a narrow road and goes past a guard gate and enters the grounds of Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • David Silverstein lives in Nairobi, but he owns a house near Washington, D.C. One day in the summer recently, when he was visiting the United States to tend to some business, I met him in a coffee shop in a shopping mall not far from his home.†   (source)
  • My favorite place in Nairobi was the Indian bazaar, with its wonderful smells and its counters heaped with spices.†   (source)
  • I paid no attention to these stories until one afternoon she said, "I once saw your parents in Nairobi at a Government House garden party.†   (source)
  • The Flying Doctors, an air-ambulance service, picked him up, and he was flown to Nairobi and rushed to Nairobi Hospital, where he came under the care of Dr. David Silverstein, who had also taken care of Dr. Musoke after Charles Monet had spewed the black vomit into Musoke's eyes.†   (source)
  • Markham, the author of West with the Night, a memoir of her years as an aviator in East Africa, used to hang out at the Nairobi Aero Club, where she had a reputation for being a slam-bang, two-fisted drinker.†   (source)
  • As I turned off the main road from Nairobi onto the road that led to Tumaini, a road that I had known well, I hesitated.†   (source)
  • Nairobi ….†   (source)
  • I had heard that in Nairobi there were cases of influenza in both the native hospital and the hospital for whites.†   (source)
  • Although I looked forward to the excitement of a visit to Nairobi, there was more than enough to amuse me in the African countryside.†   (source)
  • Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • On the very few occasions I had been allowed to accompany Mother and Father to Nairobi, the planters we saw going about on the streets appeared well behaved.†   (source)
  • By day I was overwhelmed by wasiwasi: a crooked wall, men who did not show up for work, constant trips into Nairobi to bring back supplies in the little truck.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, perhaps a doctor in Nairobi would come out once or twice a week to supervise the nurses and father's assistant so that the hospital could remain open.†   (source)
  • In British East Africa, where I was living, the influenza began in the seaport of Mombasa, traveled three hundred miles to the city of Nairobi, and from there crept onto the farms and plantations and into the Kikuyu and Masai shambas.†   (source)
  • The train from Mombasa to Nairobi chugged along slowly, but now I didn't care, for on either side of the railway were the familiar tall grasses and flat-topped acacia trees, and in the distance my old friend, Mount Kenya.†   (source)
  • And I'll have to send a truck off to the lake to wireless for a plane to take the three of us into Nairobi.†   (source)
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