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...islands are in fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea anemones, snapper and brightly colored parrot fish?and also encounter larger visitors from deeper waters, like blue and sperm whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and marine turtles. The area is a favored haunt of the endangered dugong, a cousin of the manatee, that feeds in the sea grasses of the shallow coastal...
Goldfeld, along with two researchers from the non-profit American Refugee Committee (ARC), returned from a two-week mission to Afghanistan to treat tuberculosis among Afghani refugees last month...
...situation is urgent,” says Goldfeld, who besides being a board member of ARC is also an infectious disease specialist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
...health system is completely decimated,” says Joe Bock, interim executive director of the ARC. “The World Health Organization estimated millions of dollars to rebuild Afghanistan’s health system...
Miller checked to make sure her feet were behind the three-point arc and launched a shot that found nothing but the bottom of the net, staking Harvard to a 69-65 lead with 46 seconds showing on the clock...