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...Center in Calcutta, began using IV saline treatment at a border camp, but within weeks his supplies were exhausted. Amid awful scenes in which people walked for days only to die, Mahalanabis and his team drew on their experiences in Calcutta. They formed an assembly line to weigh out correct proportions of rehydration ingredients in plastic bags, sealed the bags with an iron, and mixed the powder with water so patients' friends and relatives could collect it in mugs. "We converted the library at Johns Hopkins into a factory," Mahalanabis, now 79, recalls. "We brought in drums with side-taps...
...statement that the revulsion from Americans shows that society recognizes "limits to tolerance of our culture's anything-goes view of sexuality." Tom Minnery, the group's senior vice president of government and public policy, used the statement to add that the lurid episode might discredit "the politically correct notion fed to us by those on the left that obscenity is just another form of free speech...
...what ways are all the new tech startups - the so-called Web 2.0 companies - changing the competitive landscape for Google? Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and it's not a term that I use, but the underlying rationale technologically is correct, which is why it's really happening. The basic argument is, if you think about it: it would be better for you to have all the data and all the applications that you use on a server somewhere, and then whatever computer or device you're near you would be able to use. Let's say you have...
...different directions. Reich's team measured how the evolutionary clock varied across chromosomes in the different species. To their surprise, they deduced that chimps and humans split from a common ancestor no more than 6.3 million years ago and probably less than 5.4 million years ago. If they're correct, several hominid species now considered to be among our earliest ancestors--Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7 million years old), Orrorin tugenensis (about 6 million years old) and Ardipithecus kadabba (5.2 to 5.7 million years old)--may have to be re-evaluated...
...January, after he was indicted and there were rumors -which turned out to be correct-that Abramoff was in several photos at the White House, Bush said at a news conference, "I, frankly, don't even remember having my picture taken with the guy... I don't know him." At the time, White House officials also suggested that Abramoff had little influence or contact with them. The report cites more than 400 instances of Abramoff's team lobbying the White House. This is a one-sided account though, as it relies on e-mails from Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists...