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...before winter vacation. A winter break of less than two weeks is simply not enough to rejuvenate the student body after a grueling semester of cram sessions, all-nighters, and extracurricular meetings. Life at Harvard, as at any demanding college, is stressful. More time to spend with family, in bed, or just existing outside Harvard’s Ivy gates, would do wonders for the collective sanity of the College. With papers and exams to worry about, many Harvard students barely get to enjoy what little vacation time they do have. Getting the first semester’s work completely...
...Kimberlin pursued a musical career and an import-export business, eventually landing in his mother's basement in suburban Washington with a wife and two children. It is a constrained existence. The one-room apartment, with its low, dropped ceiling and stuccoed walls, has room for a double bed, a few stuffed chairs and a TV. After the contested 2000 election, he converted a hallway leading to the bathroom into a workplace, with a computer and modem. From that cramped space, he tapped into the expanding universe of online political activism...
...trying to capitalize on its extreme poverty. Here's how we can respond. While malaria has shaped Africa's poverty trap, it is a trap that can finally be unlocked. Spectacular technological advances, some stunningly simple, offer practical and low-cost solutions. The most obvious one is insecticide-treated bed nets, now cleverly engineered to last up to five years. The cost to manufacture, ship and distribute each net is $10. A new generation of medicines based on artemisinin, an extract from a traditional Chinese herbal remedy, is remarkably effective in treating cases of the disease, at a cost...
...should bring forth armies of Red Cross volunteers to distribute bed nets and to offer village-based training for tens of thousands of villages across Africa. In a brilliant demonstration of people power and modern logistics, Red Cross volunteers distributed nets to more than half the households of Togo in 2004 and Niger in 2005 in a matter of a few days in each country. That successful delivery model should be replicated across Africa, by 2010 if not earlier, but this will depend on mobilizing the needed resources...
...citizens' movements, including Malaria No More malarianomore.org and Nothing but Nets (nothingbutnets.net) have been established to achieve the needed breakthrough. We can each contribute $10 for a bed net. We can each learn more about the disease and become antimalaria leaders in our communities, schools, churches and businesses. We can urge our governments to work with the private sector and citizens' groups to win the fight against malaria during this decade. President Bush recently took a good step in scaling up the U.S. government's malaria-control efforts, but much more needs to be done to ensure that aid reaches...