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...Global Fund for H.I.V., TB and Malaria are betting that investing in such facilities will boost these nations' ability to combat not just TB but other infectious diseases too. UNITAID, the international drug-purchasing organization, has pledged $26.1 million to the effort, while the Global Fund promises to entertain grant proposals from countries eager to build such labs. "We don't have the luxury of having a simple saliva test that tells you in one minute if you have MDR TB," says Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of WHO's Stop TB program. "We have to work with what we have...
...hide the truth—“The Duchess” is smoke, mirrors and frequently-insubstantial pageantry. “The Duchess” isn’t meant to be a groundbreaking movie by any stretch of the imagination. Its aim is to entertain rather than to educate. But gorgeous dresses and champagne can’t mask the fact that stale dialogue and flat storylines will ruin a movie, whatever its aim may be. Director Dibb’s offering isn’t terrible—but it isn’t great either...
...himself--to another artist whose work was misunderstood in his lifetime, Alfred Hitchcock. Both worked in popular genres that had few pretensions to art--the suspense thriller and the domestic comedy. Both were technical virtuosos who loved to set themselves challenges in their chosen medium. And both managed to entertain audiences while exploring the most profound questions of human relations and values. Most filmgoers, of course, now realize that Hitchcock was far more than just the "master of suspense." House and Garden might just help Ayckbourn finally get his due as a major theater artist. On either side...
...close to the party's working class base but unable to hold his own in the rough and tumble of Berlin grand coalition politics. The job may also have been "too much for him intellectually," speculates Langguth. The final blow may have been his decision earlier this year to entertain the prospect of forming a government in the state of Hesse with the minority backing of Die Linke, a party that many of the SPD's old guard leaders, Muentefering among them, will not tolerate...
...Hardest By T. Boone Pickens; out now The latest memoir from the Texas oilman turned alternative-energy promoter is heavier on life lessons than behind-the-scenes anecdotes, though Pickens' sauciness--"Booneism #5: The higher a monkey climbs a tree, the more people can see his ass"--does entertain...