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...Kyaw Zin Htay is too weak to struggle or cry when his mother pulls aside the blanket to display his emaciated limbs. He survived Burma's biggest natural disaster in living memory, but his short life will almost certainly end here, on a fly-blown concrete floor in a broken-down temple, waiting for help that might never come...
...Seven days," says Kyaw Mya, another refugee at the temple, in broken English. "Seven days. Nothing coming. The government does nothing." Kyaw Mya is a retired soldier who cannot hide his disgust for the military regime that has run Burma for more than 40 years. "Nothing has been given from the government. They do not care to look after the public." Right now, the only person caring for them is a local midwife who dispenses from a plastic bag her meager but precious pharmacy: paracetamol, a few antibiotics, some antacid tablets. None of it will help the infant Kyaw...
...east, says immunologist Woods, who's based at the University of Tasmania. "It's never happened before that a disease has spread through a population without some animals being resistant - even Ebola doesn't kill everyone." So naturally resistant devils ought to exist, he says. "This tumor has broken all the rules so far. It has to obey one eventually...
MUSIC Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs; out May 13 On their second major-label album, the kings of emotional nerdiness mine their broken hearts with just enough sonic abandon to keep things sharp. The single I Will Possess Your Heart builds over eight brooding, Wilco-ish minutes (take that, mainstream radio!), while there's actual guitar feedback on Talking Bird. A nice step in a darker direction...
...sight of this beautiful animal collapsing after her courageous effort, her life ended by two shattered front ankles, called up memories of Barbaro, that brilliant colt ruined by a broken leg at the Preakness two years ago. Inevitably, people asked if some moral rot has crept into the sport of kings, wherein immature horses are urged to overextend themselves on legs that snap like icicles...