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• 2009.10.07: October 7, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Medicine: Public Health: Des Moines Register: Nepal RPCV Patricia Quinlisk, state epidemiologist with the Iowa Department of Public Health , says her experience helps in H1N1 battle Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 8:40 am [1]

• 2009.09.11: September 11, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Advocacy: Environment: Mobilizing the Region: Nepal RPCV Ya-Ting Liu will help the Tri-State Transportation Campaign advance state level transportation reform efforts across the country  Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 11:13 am [1]

• 2009.09.06: September 6, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Return to our Country of Service - Nepal: Lansing State Journal: Lynne Mark, who left Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer 31 years, noticed a few changes in the country  Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 11:11 am [1]

• 2009.08.14: August 14, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: COS - India: NGO's: Thaindian.com: Nepal RPCV Nick Langton named as its resident Country Director in India for the Asia Foundation  Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 11:40 am [1]

• 2009.08.14: August 14, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Architecture: Buddhism: The Wenatchee World Online: Nepal RPCV Mary Murphy helped her husband win commission to became the chief architect of Tsechen Kunchab Ling  Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 11:28 am [1]

• 2009.08.01: August 1, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: COS - India: Diplomacy: Asian Tribune: Nepal RPCV A Peter Burleigh was taken out of his retirement by the Obama administration early this year, made him the Charge' de Affairs in the New Delhi American embassy  Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 10:50 am [1]

• 2009.07.26: July 26, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Agriculture: Huffington Post: Laurence Leamer writes: Nepal's Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Concrete and Chemical Fertilizer  Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 10:48 am [1]

• 2009.07.23: July 23, 2009: Headlines: The 1960's: COS - Nepal: Writing - Nepal: Globe and Mail: "There was going to be a Chappaquiddick," says Laurence Leamer about Ted Kennedy "There was going to be some horrible event that he was thrust into."  Sunday, August 09, 2009 - 9:08 pm [1]

• 2009.06.28: June 28, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Mirror : One of our advisors on our trip to Nepal, Lynn Mark, is a retired Peace Corps volunteer from Nepal  Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 8:38 am [1]

• 2009.07.19: July 19, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: COS - India: Science: Space: 1960s: Knoxville News Sentinel: That summer Armstrong walked on the Moon two of my older brothers were in the Peace Corps -- my older brother Stocky in India and my oldest brother, Tucker, in Nepal Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 8:35 am [1]

• 2009.07.19: July 19, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Huffington Post: Laurence Leamer writes: Return to Shangri-La  Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 8:33 am [1]

• 2009.05.01: May 1, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Women's Issues: Wave Magazine: Once in Kathmandu, Mishal Moktan reconnected with Steve LeClerq, a former American Peace Corps volunteer who had been very close with her father in Taplejung, when she was a small girl who agreed to pay her college fees when Mishal joined the IEC School of Art and Fashion  Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 11:27 am [1]

• 2009.05.21: May 21, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: State Government: Montgomery Advertiser: Nepal RPCV Arthur Orr accepts raise as State Senator in Alabama, but has released information detailing the charities and programs in his district on which he has spent the money  Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 10:57 am [1]

• 2009.06.08: June 8, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Older Volunteers: Awards: Nursing: Orland Park Prairie: While in Nepal with the Peace Corps, Dr. Catherine Taylor Foster assisted in administering a Polio vaccine, the importance of green vegetables and the necessity of boiling water before drinking it  Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 10:53 am [1]

• 2009.05.15: May 15, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Awards: Presidents - Carter: Older Volunteers: Peace Corps Press Release: Acting Peace Corps Director and Former President Jimmy Carter Present The Lillian Carter Award to Dr. Catherine Taylor Foster who, at the age of 59, began her two years of service in 1996 as a health Volunteer in Nepal Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 5:01 pm [1]

• 2009.05.05: May 5, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Older Volunteers: Senior Times: In 1997 Purita Dayawon, then 59, boarded a crowded, hot bus with animals and children alike. Three months of classes and training with the Peace Corps could not prepare her for the trip to the village in Nepal that would become her home for the next 27 months.  Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 8:46 pm [1]

• 2009.04.20: April 20, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Service: Law: Iraq: Jurisprudence: E Kantipur : RPCV Matthew Handley and his firm filed a case against the American company for alleged involvement in the trafficking of 12 Nepalis said he was optimistic about victory  Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 8:44 pm [1]

• 2009.04.25: April 25, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Speaking Out: Economics: NY Times: Nepal RPCV Robert H. Frank writes: Contrary to what many parents tell their children, talent and hard work are neither necessary nor sufficient for economic success  Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 8:43 pm [1]

• 2009.03.25: March 25, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Budget: Expansion: Congress: The Himalayan: Peace Corps will not be returning to Nepal in 2009 Friday, March 27, 2009 - 12:01 pm [1]

• 2009.02.12: February 12, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Fulbright: Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Nepal RPCV Thomas Robertson will be in Nepal through June as a Fulbright Scholar to conduct research on the social, environmental, and political consequences of Cold War-era American rural development programs  Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:19 pm [1]

• 2008.11.26: November 26, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Speaking Out: Christian Science Monitor: Jonathan Zimmerman writes: Nepal's ban on private schools is unjust  Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 11:07 am [1]

• 2007.10.17: October 17, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Awards: Modesto Bee: Nepal RPCV Doug Harms will receive Modesto county's annual Equal Rights Award  Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 1:22 pm [1]

• 2008.09.08: September 8, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Safety: Gorkhapatra: US Ambassador to Nepal Nancy J. Powel says: Peace Corps continues to jointly review the evolving security climate in Nepal  Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 1:13 pm [1]

• 2008.08.03: August 3, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Return to our Country of Service - Nepal: Enterprise-Record: RPCV Gina returns to Nepal after 30 years  Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 8:29 am [1]

• 2008.06.06: June 6, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Acting: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: In Andrew Weems "Namaste Man" Weems' hippie parents, stranded in Katmandu after their Peace Corps service, quote Bertolt Brecht and herd their sneaker-shod students through mountain passes at 18,500 feet  Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 11:53 pm [1]

• 2008.05.27: May 27, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Obituaries: orthfield News: Obituary for Nepal RPCV Michael Frame  Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 11:50 pm [1]

• 2008.05.27: May 27, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Obituaries: Northfield News: Obituary for Nepal RPCV Michael Frame  Friday, May 30, 2008 - 2:29 pm [1]

• 2008.05.22: May 22, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Service: Law: Iraq: Nepali News: RPCV Matthew Handley and his firm (Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C.) pursued the case of 12 Nepali men who were murdered in Iraq in 2004  Friday, May 30, 2008 - 2:27 pm [1]

• 2008.04.10: April 10, 2008: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Expansion: NPCA: Austin Herald: Nepal RPCV Rajeev Goyal, coordinator of the MorePeaceCorps campaign and recipient of the Franklin H. Williams Award, will be speaking in Austin Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 1:00 pm [1]

• 2007.12.20: December 20, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Recruitment: BurlingtonFreePress.com: Amanda Richardson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal  Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 7:24 am [1]

• 2007.06.07: June 7, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal:: Forestry: 4H: Michigan State University: Nepal RPCV Sara Keinath named Wexford County 4-H youth educator  Friday, November 30, 2007 - 7:57 am [1]

• 2007.10.03: October 3, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Return to Our Country of Service - Nepal: The Orion: Lee and Karen Altier served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal and returned this summer to visit the couple's host family  Friday, November 30, 2007 - 7:54 am [1]

• 2007.10.24: October 24, 2007: Headlines: COS -Nepal : Obituaries: Country Directors - Nepal: Washington Post: Obituary for Nepal Country Director Burce R. Morgan  Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 8:17 am [1]

• 2007.09.18: September 18, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Obituaries: Staff: Mountaineering: Seacoast Online: Obituary for Robert Hicks Bates,first Peace Corps country director in Nepal  Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 1:18 pm [3]

• 2007.08.06: August 6, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Obituaries: Nursing: Village Soup: Obituary for Nepal RPCV Jean E. Seawell  Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 8:13 pm [2]

• 2007.07.13: July 13, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Obituaries: Music: Washington Post: Obituary for Nepal RPCV Diana M. Lawry  Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 3:19 pm [1]

• 2007.05.21: May 21, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Secondary Education: Awards: Williams College: Nepal RPCV Roger Maynard, Jr. awarded George Olmsted, Jr., Class of 1924, Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching  Monday, November 16, 2009 - 5:29 pm [2]

• 2007.06.04: June 4, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Mountaineering: Inside Bay Area: Harold Knutson says the Peace Corps sent him to Nepal, where he later worked for the United Nations, mapping the border area for the Nepalese government  Monday, June 25, 2007 - 10:55 am [1]

• 2007.04.08: April 8, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Journalism: Television: USA Today: Kiran Chetry, host of CNN's American Morning, was born in Nepal, daughter of a Nepalese Peace Corps executive and an American mother, and raised in Maryland  Monday, June 25, 2007 - 10:47 am [2]

• 2007.06.02: June 2, 2007: Headlines: COS -Nepal: Obituaries: Daily Mining Gazette: Obituary for Nepal RPCV Loret Miller Ruppe  Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 6:39 am [2]

• 2006.12.17: December 17, 2006: Headlines: COS - Nepal: State Government: COS - Bangladesh: Habitat for Humanity: The Decatur Daily: Nepal RPCV Arthur Orr elected to Alabama State Senate after working with Habitat for Humanity in Bangladesh  Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 10:11 am [1]

• 2007.01.30: January 30, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Movies: Documentaries: Film: Jimi Sir: Peace Corps Documentary "Jimi Sir" now available for free viewing on the internet  Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 8:02 am [1]

• 2007.01.14: January 14, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: NGO's: Yoga: Himalayan Healers: Nepal RPCV Robert Buckley founds Himalayan Healers to preserve the rich history of healing and energy work in the Himalayas and benefit Sponsored Students from the Untouchable castes of Nepal  Sunday, January 14, 2007 - 2:54 pm [1]

• 2007.01.20: January 20, 2007: Headlines: COS - Nepal: Safety: Kantipur Online: PCVs return to Nepal on their own after 2004 evacuation  Friday, January 12, 2007 - 9:48 am [1]

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