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Muckey’s bid of $140 a square foot earlier this month beat out those of three other prospective owners, including Unofficial Tours LLC, which was founded by Harvard students; Canada-based Gateway Newsstands; and Kallol Barua, the current general manager of the building. Unofficial Tours had the runner-up offer at $136 per square foot...
...fatality rate among the patients in the camp fell to 3% from 30%, and to less than 1% when IV fluids were administered to the most severely ill. Still, skepticism about the effectiveness of oral rehydration continued. Several journals refused to publish Mahalanabis' paper about the outbreak. But Dhiman Barua, then head of WHO's bacterial diseases unit in Geneva, Switzerland and a survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies. who rolled out its diarrheal...
...describe. She dips a branch of memory into the pool of the past until it is crystallized with insights, landscapes, literature, and animals that seem as if painted by Henri Rousseau. Who else, one wonders, would have attained a great reputation as a healer merely by holding a Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became...
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