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...statistics from the Ministry of Health, 810,000 people contracted schistosomiasis, more than double the number of cases in 1988. But experts caution that the real figure is much higher and could spiral further upward upon completion of the Three Gorges Reservoir, which might cause the snails to spread eastward. Jiang Changzao, a former official at China's largest reed plantation, which supplies pulp for paper, says that almost every reed cutter working the fields near Dongting Lake is now infected with schistosomiasis. He charges staff at the local health bureau with consistently underreporting the number of people infected...
...legislation indefinitely - while at the same time, a bona fide dissident movement has grown steadily on the island. Executions for noncapital crimes aren't unusual in Cuba; but Castro's current fury has rights advocates worried that more may be in the offing. - By Tim Padgett Eastward Bound FRANCE The European Parliament endorsed the E.U.'s enlargement eastward by formally voting to admit the 10 new members scheduled to join the union in 2004. Leaders of the 10 countries will sign accession treaties at a special summit in Athens this week. At the weekend, Hungary became the third...
Having shared the field with the likes of eventual Olympians Lisa Fernandez, Michelle Granger and Julie Smith, it’s hard to argue with Allard’s take. Then again, it is also clear that softball’s migration eastward and the diffusion and diversification of talent—a trend that Allard embodied in her own playing career—helped the sport catch on and grow at places like Harvard...
...scary times. Perhaps it’s easier not to remember Rita Hester today, it’s easier not to dwell on the twenty-five known victims of anti-transgender violence since the last Day of Remembrance. But notwithstanding the November gloom and the warplanes winging their way eastward, today we must remember...
General Myers also suggests there is growing consensus in Washington that Afghanistan's needs require a greater commitment from the U.S. In the strip of Afghanistan stretching from Kabul eastward to the Pakistan border, where al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still potent, the principal mission of the U.S. must for now remain military, Myers says. But in the remaining three-quarters of the country, it might be time to "flip our priorities," he says, and make reconstruction paramount. "That's what we're debating right now inside government." Myers says rebuilding Afghanistan would not be "a U.S.-only effort...