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...impact of malaria, however, is still massive. "Whether it's 200 million or 500 million [cases], that's a lot of infections with a big health burden and a big economic burden," says Bernard Nahlen, deputy coordinator of the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative - especially, he says, "for something that is treatable and to a large extent preventable. If your child's life can be saved by treatment for 50 cents, you should treat...
...month after an accounting scandal made headlines, the telecommunications company, once the second largest long-distance carrier in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy. Several WorldCom executives subsequently pleaded guilty to fraud charges, with CEO Bernard Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison. The company emerged from bankruptcy...
Apart from their constitutionality, of course, the other question surrounding curfews is whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home...
Pointing Fingers Over Georgia Has Zbigniew Brzezinski [Aug. 25] forgotten that the U.S. invaded Iraq under false pretenses and is still there? Is it so different from the Russian invasion of Georgia? Bernard Saint-Jacques, NORTH VANCOUVER...
...reveled in attacking the national media for its so-called liberal bias. President George H.W. Bush ran for re-election in 1992 with a bumper sticker that read "Annoy the media: Re-elect Bush." His son, President George W. Bush, trotted before cameras in 2001 with a copy of Bernard Goldberg's book on the subject, Bias, conspicuously cradled in his hand...