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Cohen, who said she hopes to pursue a career as a writer, said she is looking to hone her writing skills her year in Cambodia...
Cohen, a Crimson editor and a women’s studies concentrator, said Harvard’s cultural studies courses partly contributed to her decision to work in Phnom Penh as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily News, where half of the staff writes in English and the other half in Khmer—a language she will be learning...
...fascinated by Cambodia both on intellectual and humanitarian levels. Given its political upheavals, having an unbiased news source is one of the most important things the country needs,” Cohen said...
...against Vietnam in 1979, Beijing issued its troops a crude anti-malarial pill based on a traditional Chinese medicine?and it worked. Today, hopes are high that a similar folk-remedy-derived treatment might help wipe out the disease. Scientists at the Mekong Malaria Symposium, held last week in Cambodia, announced that early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third the price of today's treatments. The drug is a combination of dihydro-artemisinin, borrowed from the traditional Chinese treatment...
...living to be the best time of my life.” Now that she’s quasi-grown-up, Lieskovsky hasn’t gotten any more mainstream in her career goals. “I want to be Angelina Jolie’s assistant in Cambodia,” she exclaims. “She’s doing all this amazing UN goodwill work. I would just love to hang out there, hang out with movie stars but help land mine victims, too. I think there’s too little glamour in volunteer work...