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...have to offer poor families compensation for birds that are culled. In the long run, though, countries like Turkey need to teach residents of rural villages and urban shanty towns that they can no longer raise poultry haphazardly in their yards and streets, where domestic birds can come into contact with the migrating wild birds that naturally carry the virus around the world...
...household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network of community health volunteers - ordinary Thais like Rampai - has been enlisted to look for possible outbreaks. The volunteers disseminate information about the disease and its symptoms to villagers who normally have little contact with doctors or government officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government has made a special effort to educate the most vulnerable groups: a UNICEF-produced series of comic pamphlets warns rural children - who make up the majority of bird-flu cases - to stay away from...
...Harvard, there is plenty of reason to complain. Contact with professors is, at best, generally limited to brief visits to office hours or one House faculty dinner per semester. While these interactions can be highly enjoyable, they are a far cry from the weekly lunches that I had once envisioned in my pre-college years...
...Harvard is not the only school with problems, and it is certainly not the institution alone that should be blamed. As I realized from my time at UCLA, it is especially difficult to have any contact at all with professors at large public universities, and House dinners simply do not exist...
...you’re not here.”But Bakshi managed to place a cell phone call from a bathroom stall to a Zimbabwean journalist, who then alerted the U.S. embassy.He said Leverett House assistant senior tutor Judy Murciano-Goroff worked with U.S. embassy officials and Zimbabwean contacts to secure his release.Murciano-Goroff did not return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment over the past two days. A spokeswoman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, Angela Aggeler, said that federal law bars her from releasing information on individual American citizens.A Zimbabwean embassy...