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...days, 6-month-old Ullash has been admitted to the ICDDR's children's ward; just one of 325 patients admitted within the last 24 hours. The boy weighs only 69% of the expected weight for his age and is malnourished. He has a high fever, a cough and persistent diarrhea. His parents, Jurin and Nazdin, educated Dhaka residents, wait anxiously as he receives intravenous fluids. "We don't understand where this is coming from," says Nazdin. But Sack, the center's executive director, knows. Malnutrition and diarrhea go hand-in-hand, and in Bangladesh both are so widespread that...
...wasn’t until 2005 that the civil case was resolved. Harvard, Shleifer, and his colleague, Jonathan R. Hay, who assisted him in Russia, agreed to settle for $30 million. The Crimson reported in August 2005 that Harvard would pay $26.5 million, while Shleifer would cough up $2 million, and Hay would pay between $1 million and $2 million, depending on future earnings...
...former Taliban comrades to reconcile with the government of President Hamid Karzai. But he can't visit his constituency in the southern district of Zabul because security is terrible and he's received too many assassination threats. Rocketi is grateful for foreign aid, but frustrated that donors regularly cough up so much less than promised that the country's development can't really take off. "We live like beggars," he says. It's widely agreed that Afghanistan's national army and police, despite some improvements, are far too small and weak to take on powerful narco-traffickers, local warlords...
...first days of medical school, students are often asked, "What has hooves and gallops?" The good medical student answers, "A horse, unless of course it's a zebra." This question is meant to teach students that most patients who cough have colds, not cystic fibrosis, or that most patients who have bruised shins suffer from clumsiness, not leukemia. But what is true for most is unfortunately not so for all - and one of the most crucial and challenging skills that medical students must learn is to diagnose "the horse" efficiently without forgetting "the zebra...
...Price Isn't Right Re "Sweet 16 and Spoiled Rotten" [April 24]: I agree with columnist Ana Marie Cox that mtv's reality show My Super Sweet 16 verges on the nauseating. It is nearly unbearable to witness the whining of greedy teenage girls while their fathers cough up hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single party and a luxury automobile. After watching an episode with my rapt teenage daughter, I couldn't help asking, Is it any wonder the rest of the world hates us? Fern Galperin Stamford, Connecticut...