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Tekleab Tomlinson; refugee worked on easing global hunger

Tekleab Kassaye Tomlinson worked for the United Nations World Food Programme. Tekleab Kassaye Tomlinson worked for the United Nations World Food Programme.
By Stephanie M. Peters
Globe Correspondent / September 1, 2009

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Tekleab Kassaye Tomlinson was an Ethiopian political refugee when he arrived in the United States in 1962 with little more than his grandfather’s pocket watch and a desire to eliminate the type of poverty and hunger he had escaped. (Full article: 782 words)

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