Mbarara

Soon they were spending their vacations in Mbarara.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

Lena took Charlie and Theo on that first trip to Mbarara, Uganda, to a teaching hospital with a small HIV clinic.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

And through his work in Mbarara, Charlie had imagined a more simplified robot that could be used in remote locations, a battlefield, say—a smaller robot that could be wheeled in on a cart and cost a tenth of the price of the Midas.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

As she talked, she realized she was missing Charlie, who had gone first to Mbarara—as far away as he could go—and was now staying with Swanson, visiting the kids on the weekends.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

A truck offloads freshly picked coffee berries at a processing factory in Mbarara, western Uganda.

Weaning countries off aid | Jonathan Glennie 2011

They had a patent and a prototype for a surgical device whereby, using a robot on one end, fiber optic cables in the middle and a console of instruments at the other extreme, a boy with a harelip in Mbarara could be operated on by a surgeon in his office in New York.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

Soon they were spending their vacations in Mbarara.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

As she talked, she realized she was missing Charlie, who had gone first to Mbarara—as far away as he could go—and was now staying with Swanson, visiting the kids on the weekends.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

Lena took Charlie and Theo on that first trip to Mbarara, Uganda, to a teaching hospital with a small HIV clinic.

Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

A truck offloads freshly picked coffee berries at a processing factory in Mbarara, western Uganda.

Weaning countries off aid | Jonathan Glennie 2011