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...cholera, malnutrition and anemia. Some will die. Most will be cured. All will be treated with as much care and attention--if not more--as is afforded wealthy patients at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where Farmer has joint appointments. He calls this approach the "preferential option for the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Champion Of the Poor | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...overcome such complacency, Darkoh realized, HIV care had to reach beyond hospitals and clinics and involve everyone from local church groups to tribal chiefs--an approach that would get the treatments where they needed to go, raise awareness and, very important, break the stigma of the disease. He recruited local leaders, hired outside distribution experts and lobbied to introduce universal HIV testing so that people visiting clinics would have to ask not to be tested rather than the reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Efficiency Expert | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...letting them be kids and have the freedom of their childhood. He said that society pushes children to grow up too quickly and that maintaining the innocent insight of childhood is important.But Underwood said he is not suggesting that his way is the right way. He said that his approach to parenting is about the day-to-day actions of life. “It’s about when you can, not if you can,” he said. “Two seconds can crush the human spirit and two seconds can build...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Actor-Writer Promotes Book | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

Forcing game attendance also makes Yale especially lame. The implementation of this rule shows that a majority of students evidently only care about tailgating instead of supporting their own football team. It seems somewhat pathetic that Yale is forced to take this paternalistic approach to school spirit during a highly publicized game with a rival—and admittedly intimidating—team. Shutting down the tailgate will also be logistically difficult with an unruly group of very drunk students who are not interested in a football game. Instead of these rowdy students trickling in throughout the game...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: No Ping Pong Balls Allowed | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...elevated risk for heart disease. Diabetes and bipolar disorder are only two of the diseases being studied. In the Boston area alone, researchers are using similar genetic methods to learn more about autism, multiple sclerosis, and heart disease, Altshuler said. Altshuler said it remains unclear how fruitful this approach to studying disease will be, adding that he is open-minded and optimistic. Using the same approach, he said, researchers have identified a gene for a common form of blindness. The HapMap also has implications for the study of evolution and natural selection. Pardis C. Sabeti, a student...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Make New Gene Map | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

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