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...disease, hoping to get more money to fight mosquito-borne illnesses. "This is a critical moment," says Dr. Maria Neira, director of the WHO's program on public health and the environment. "If the public pressure is maintained, the politicians will act accordingly." Waiting for dengue fever to burn itself out may be the only option for individuals who catch the disease, but that's a lousy prescription for the planet...
...Mitte, the center of old East Berlin. I found myself alone on this huge square, except for a strange glow coming from a glass plate in the pavement. There was a small white underground chamber lined with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will end up burning people.' It was the monument to the 1933 book burnings. I looked up and saw I was surrounded by Frederick the Great's Neoclassical buildings. Nearby were Hitler's bunker and the old Jewish synagogue. I was at the center of world history...
...Another lay-in from Pusar, which gives him 10 points, found by Jeremy Lin as the Crimson continues to burn the 1-3-1 zone backdoor. This follows a DeShawn Sims three-pointer for Michigan. HARVARD 28, MICHIGAN...
...opportunities to tell the people you care about how much you love them. Keys concludes the album appropriately with “Sure Looks Good to Me.” She sings, “Life is bittersweet but it tastes good to me / Take my turn, crash and burn, that’s how it’s supposed to be / Don’t rain on my parade / Life’s too short to waste one day.” A fitting conclusion to such an uplifting album. “As I Am” aims...
...arid peninsula off the western coast of Venezuela. The Paraguan facility processes more than 700,000 bbl. of crude each day for the state-owned oil monopoly, Petrleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), while tankers line up on the Caribbean horizon to ship it around the world. Towering burn-off pipes, as loud as jet engines, shoot flames above giant posters of President Hugo Chvez. His fist raised, he roars, "Of course...