The same applied on IRC chat rooms: people could see you join the conversation, so it wasn't totally possible to slink in unnoticed, but it was best not to come in with your ass on your shoulders.
In 2008 the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian group, estimated that 5.4m people had died in "Africa's world war".
One suggestion is that the IRC will buy most of Kanebo's interest-bearing debts, paying as much as 25% more than Kao's offer.
The Institute for Construction Research (IRC), a division of National Research Council Canada and one of the pioneers of research into conductive concrete, is also in the first stages of financing demonstration projects.
The IRC further estimates that in eastern DRC, the death rate remains as much as 85% higher than the Sub-Saharan average.
The IRC will then take a majority stake in the group's cosmetics division when it is spun off in May.
Laila Raiki of the Canadian IRC thinks that the use of such supplementary cements has yet to be fully exploited.
But the IRC wants to use such industrial by-products to make practical objects, such as roofing tiles.Scientists have also been using concrete to get rid of unwanted material giving waste, as it were, the proverbial concrete boots.
The IRC says it treated 40,000 survivors in the eastern province of South Kivu alone between 2003 and 2008".The data only tell you so much," says Hillary Margolis, who runs the IRC's sexual-violence programme in North Kivu.
The IRC calculated this by comparing death rates before, during and after the war and then extrapolating.
Patrick Collins, a former federal prosecutor and the head of the IRC, is trying to close as many loopholes as he can.
