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Like many great medical breakthroughs, Drs. Abhay and Rani Bang's discovery of how to reduce child deaths in the developing world as much as 75% came from a deceptively simple premise. "We decided to listen to our patients," says Abhay. That may sound obvious, but in 1986, when the pair returned to their poor, central Indian hometown of Gadchiroli with master's degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins University, it was a novel approach...
...goals. We were confident. Even when we got scored on, we were like, ‘we’re dominating this game, it’s not a big deal.’ [But], as the clock ticks down, and you’re just trying to bang it up, they’re dropping back, and you’re outnumbered on offense.”Harvard also got a temporary boost from the return of sophomore forward Jamie Greenwald, who has missed time with a bone bruise. Sporting a large wrapping on her ankle, she replaced Kerr...
...Doors and drug-addicted John Holmes in Wonderland, he's starring in his first intelligent buddy comedy. The directorial debut of Shane Black--the highest-paid screenwriter of the early to mid-'90s (Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero), who hadn't worked in six years--Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang pairs Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. in a very meta film-noir detective story in which the narrator is constantly interrupting to apologize for various film clichs. Kilmer plays Gay Perry, a private investigator who's gay and named Perry...
...believe in the Big Bang. We believe in incremental stages to find a solution." DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, explaining during his North America visit last week that Hong Kong would need time to develop democratic institutions, despite calls for universal suffrage in the territory...
...last stops on the most grueling stretch of its schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championships. Instead, however, the team ended its series of marathon weekends with a bang, surging to a second-place finish in the Nelson Regatta at Connecticut College and missing first by only ten points—a performance that could prove to be important for the upcoming women’s ACC’s. The weekend was the sixth straight in which Harvard...