CAIRO
— A haunted look in the eyes of Amal Hussain, an emaciated 7-year-old
lying silently on a hospital bed in northern Yemen, seemed to sum up the
dire circumstances of her war-torn country.
A
searing portrait of the starving girl published in The New York Times
last week drew an impassioned response from readers. They expressed
heartbreak. They offered money for her family. They wrote in to ask if
she was getting better.