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...solution depends on the quality of the water, and there Murphy's Law prevails. In regions where water quality is questionable, young children should drink boiled water from properly cleaned containers. Johannes H. Kop Delft, the Netherlands time reported that 5,000 young children in the developing world die each day from diarrhea. Gastroenteritis is due to unchecked population growth and overcrowding, to humans' overtaxing their environment. The most stable environment is one in equilibrium. Growth leads to instability and breakdown. It is unfortunate that, in this world, everything is geared toward growth. Chin Wei Pok, M.D. Subang Jaya, Malaysia...
...grew up in he was called Gone Far, for the hundreds of miles he walked when he fled the violence of Sudan's civil war. One girl nicknamed him Sleeper, for the time he was so exhausted he lay down in the middle of the road and tried to die. The other guy sitting across from me, next to Valentino/Gone Far/Sleeper, has just one name: Dave Eggers...
...swirling to lively music. “I haven’t pre-gamed at all and I feel amazing,” said Firth M. McEachern ’08. “It’s almost trance-like.” While there were the expected die-hard dancers who showed up, first-timers too were well-represented. “People come having no experience and learn on the spot,” said Dharma Co-President Utpal N. Sandesara ’08. Some said they felt that the event provided a social opportunity unlike...
WORKERS Live about six weeks Literally worked to death, they care for young, clean and protect the hive, forage for food and die when their wings wear...
Those are questions brothers Chip and Dan Heath parse in their upcoming book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The exploration follows from a class Chip, 43, a professor of organizational behavior, teaches at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He comes to the topic by way of research into urban legends and conspiracy theories--ideas that are wrong but so annoyingly sticky they just won't go away. Dan, 33, draws his interest from working as an education consultant and trying to figure out what makes some teachers so effective...