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...knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims"--even to refute such a notion-- is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have been more accurate and thoughtful to have said that some Jews found a way to fight back, and did. Richard Allen Cohen, CHICAGO...
...that President-elect Barack Obama create a dedicated interagency group that would respond to genocide by analyzing emerging threats and coordinating action with other nations. The panel, which also includes former U.S. Central Command chief Anthony Zinni, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, recommended that the U.S. government invest $250 million in new funds for prevention and response...
Malaria has always been a far harder scourge to control. The parasite that causes it is tough and versatile, and the pest that delivers it - the mosquito - is everywhere. "There has never been a vaccine against any human parasite," says Joe Cohen, a vice president of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) biologicals. "It's an extra challenge with malaria due to the complexity of the parasite, its ability to evade the immune system and our almost constant exposure to it." The result: 247 million malaria cases worldwide and almost 1 million deaths per year - the overwhelming majority of them infants...
...like acne, headaches, and height are contagious among adolescents, indicating that the methods used in the happiness study can produce spurious results. “There’s no such thing as a social contagion in height,” Fletcher said. Fletcher and his co-author, B. Cohen-Cole ’95, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, suggested that the happiness study could be biased because happy people are often friends and that their good moods are not necessarily influenced by each other. “Friends select people to be their friends...
...can’t pump enough to power a full LP—but at least it still has the capacity to throb occasionally. So get the man some beta blockers and a Prozac, and let’s hope for the best.—Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...