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...return of tuberculosis in epidemic numbers is just one of the many devastating consequences of AIDS. But at least patients suffering from recent TB outbreaks can depend on powerful combinations of antibiotics, a treatment recipe that owes a great debt to the pioneering work of Irish scientist Sir John Crofton...
President Barack Obama is about to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, but the success of whatever option he chooses will depend heavily on Pakistan acting to stop its territory being used to attack Western forces next door. And that's bad news, because the demands of its own domestic counterinsurgency campaign, doubts about the duration of U.S. commitment in Afghanistan and looming political instability in Islamabad have left Pakistan in no hurry to help...
...answer, at least in the short term, will depend on the Vatican's new policy. Any major move will require the resolution of key practical issues such as who owns church property, who can ordain priests, and other risks of dividing parishes over the desire by some into full communion with the Catholic Church. One conservative Anglican leader preparing to make the leap with his followers is hopeful that the Pope's decision to set up separate Anglican "personal ordinariates" - structurally similar to Catholic dioceses, but with married clergy and more democratic church governance - could attract growing numbers of traditionalists...
...Crimson does climb this high in the rankings, it will not just depend on a strong rookie class but will also draw on its seasoned veterans...
JAMES WEILL, president of the Food Research and Action Center, on an analysis of 30 years of data that found nearly half of all U.S. children and 90% of black youths will have to depend on food stamps at some point in their childhoods...