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...study also found that eliminating these risk factors would help combat tuberculosis deaths, according to Megan Murray, a professor at the School of Public Health and an author of the study, though the effect on tuberculosis deaths is hard to model because of the availability of successful tuberculosis treatment methods...
...asked people to research anything and everything that peaked their interest involving war.” Students were asked to create presentations based on the work they had done, which they gave in workshops with McLaughlin last October. “Themes that emerged were female soldiers, PTSD and combat drama, and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Nelson says. “[McLaughlin] brought up that she saw parallels in the themes discussed and the play ‘Ajax’ by Sophocles.” McLaughlin decided to adapt “Ajax...
...stakes of the negotiations rose significantly on Wednesday, when the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing governments to use all necessary measures to combat piracy. That would presumably include the use of force. Now the warships guarding the Faina must calculate whether such a raid, which would put the lives of the 20 hostages aboard the ship at risk, is worth a potential catastrophe. "If they attack us, we will defend ourselves and the situation will worsen. We will fight until only a drop of blood is left in our bodies," Sugule Ali, the pirate spokesman, tells TIME from...
...dishes, I’ll do anything,” he said. State Representative Alice K. Wolf, whose district includes Harvard Square, said she sympathizes with Reddick. “This downturn of the economy has hit working people particularly hard,” said Wolf. In order to combat this epic rise in homelessness, Wolf has lobbied for appropriations for the homeless. This fiscal year’s budget includes $10 million for temporary supportive housing and the organization Housing First. “We’re looking for long-term solutions. We want to end the cycle...
...says. The expansive glass walls make the outside landscape a backdrop for the building’s buzz of activity, though they are not completely aesthetic. Hartman explains that most energy consumption in buildings is a result of having artificial lights on during daylight, and that glass helps to combat this excess. “When most students experience a campus in New England, often much of the day the sun is down, or low. Our intent was to make the building like a lantern—glowing during the night.” Night or day, the Northwest Science...