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...room facility equipped with negative airflow, which contains and filters air circulating through TB wards. A single such center is hardly enough, but it is a start. "It shows you it is possible," says Raviglione. And that is the most powerful lesson in TB today. The bug can adapt; if we're smart, so can we. -with reporting by Megan Lindow/Cape Town, Madhur Singh/New Delhi and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuberculosis: An Ancient Disease Continues to Thrive | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...results in as little as two days. But for most TB-ravaged nations, adopting the technique will require upgrading lab facilities. That's not easy, but it's something WHO hopes will ultimately help these countries battle not just TB but other infectious diseases as well. TB bacilli have adapted over millenniums; to control the scourge, we must adapt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Plague | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

Following shows about Mormon sex, vampire sex and boring couple sex, HBO to adapt TOM WOLFE book about college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...believe they can't: address issues people actually care about--as opposed to those the respectable media care about--and say what they actually think. Once upon a time, journalists' circumspection was a source of authority; increasingly, it just seems like phoniness. And while traditional media are trying to adapt to a bloggier, more opinionated age, they're still largely accustomed to the old standards of equivalency: the notion that if candidate X commits a transgression, "balance" requires that you find an equivalent from candidate Y--or at least an X supporter willing to claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from The View | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Veteran sumo journalist Kunihiro Sugiyama suggests a remedy: "It is a matter of urgency that foreign as well as Japanese wrestlers are given detailed education and guidance. Also, the stable masters have to adapt to the present circumstances and be concerned with the well-being of sumo on the whole and learn a lot themselves." He adds, "In the increasingly global world, a very positive effort is necessary to preserve the tradition of one country, and ensure it is passed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal in Sumo Land | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

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