John Anner: East Meets West has been working in Southeast Asia since 1988 to help improve health, education and infrastructure.

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Then, suddenly, an African American contestant, who calls herself Dr. Phyllis and proposed a show about teachers, received a waterfall of votes and overcame Anner.

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As of this afternoon, Zach Anner is back in the lead.

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This week, web-savvy bloggers at Geekosystem appeared to have found evidence that the competition had been rigged against front-runner Zach Anner, a 25-year-old from Texas who is wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy.

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John Anner: A trend in clean water and sanitation in the past was for aid organizations to come into a community, dig a well or build a latrine, provide information on how it should be used, and then leave.

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