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...SOUND HOPEFUL, BUT I KNOW YOU LOVE TO READ AND TEACH ALBERT CAMUS. WHY? MANY PEOPLE SEE HIM AS A DEPRESSING WRITER. To the contrary, I think he is hopeful. If you read The Plague, there is a doctor who does everything he can to save. In the midst of death, there is a human being who sacrifices his days and nights--and maybe risks his life--to save people he'd never met. Camus said, "Where there is no hope, one must invent hope." It is only pessimistic if you stop with the first half of the sentence...
...Saharan Africa. I was appalled to see patients there with acute pneumonia (very likely related to aids) sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. Albert Fournier Amiens, France I am sick and tired of seeing bono in the news posing as a superhero saving the poor. The world is full of organizations and unknown individuals who could achieve considerably more than Bono has in the fight against poverty if they were granted a fraction...
...Albert Brooks' latest directorial project, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, the U.S. government sends the funnyman to South Asia and he almost starts World...
...arise if HUPD records are exempted from public disclosure. Because the Crimson did not raise this issue in its complaint or before the Superior Court, it has been waived. See Salem v. Bureau of Special Educ. Appeals of the Dep't of Educ., 444 Mass. 476, 485-486 (2005); Albert v. Municipal Court of the City of Boston, 388 Mass...
There are even tantalizing hints that those healthful habits may also prevent or delay Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia?although that conclusion is controversial. "I would phrase it differently," says Marilyn Albert, director of the division of cognitive neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. "What the studies have done is to take people who are middle-aged and elderly and look at what maintains good brain health...