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...along with similar numbers of chimpanzees. That the disease was responsible was established in a paper published in December in Science. Now a report in the American Naturalist explains just why Ebola is spreading among the animals so furiously - and shows how it could be stopped, according to lead author Peter Walsh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Leipzig, Germany. The epidemiological tactics used to treat outbreaks of human scourges like E. coli hold the answer. Ebola is transmitted by contact with body fluids, and it's rapidly fatal. When people get it, they become so sick...
Rountree, an anthropologist, is the author of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown
...Hutton's book is much more ambitious in scope, particularly for someone who is not a China specialist. (He is a former newspaper editor and author of books on economics and European and U.S. politics.) In 400 pages dense with facts and footnotes-his bibliography runs to 27 pages-Hutton sets out a detailed analysis of China's rise and of what Western nations must do to preserve a leading role in the face of it. His proposition is fairly simple, and pretty much diametrically opposed to Mann's. "If the next century is going to be Chinese," Hutton writes...
...Nigerian author Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, argued that the Arab section of Sudan must confront its past and acknowledge its role in the violence in Darfur instead of remaining in a “state of amnesia.” In a speech last night called “Darfur: Anything to do with Slavery?” Soyinka addressed the ongoing violence that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of displaced refugees. Soyinka argued that Arabs played a historic role in the African slave trade...
...through his long and distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of over twenty books on subjects that varied from baseball to war, Halberstam never lost that passion and drive for journalism—a passion for which he will be revered...