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...clinic staff lack the advanced lab resources to culture TB samples, they test for TB by smear microscopy - a laborious and often ineffective process in which a patient coughs up some sputum and a technician looks at the sample under a microscope, trying to pick out the bacteria by eye. That method "is very good at finding people who are infectious," says Liz Corbett, a clinical researcher from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who works with TB patients in Zimbabwe. But a patient can have active, even lethal, TB without being very infectious. Using the standard smear...
Brabeck wants Nestle's management structure to pay less attention to national boundaries, and he has begun to get his way. Nestle's water business is now run as a global operation out of Paris, and its eye-care business was spun off as a separate company, Alcon, with its own stock-market listing. Nestle's most futuristic business, an attempt to develop nutritional supplements that enhance beauty, is being pursued as a joint venture with L'Oreal. But Nestle's national organizations still manufacture much of what they sell locally, controlling the chocolate, milk and most other products they...
...passengers notice that the female flight attendants never seem to age. Few customers complain. "I'm 55, and so are the flight attendants on American Airlines in first class, and I appreciate their ... experience," says an American satellite-communications consultant who frequents several international airlines. But he prefers the eye candy on SIA. "It's much more fun hanging around 22-year-old girls. It makes those long flights go faster...
...primary focus of U.S. attention today is China, whose economy continues to grow apace and attracts huge amounts of foreign direct investment--an eye-popping $53.5 billion last year. For months now, American economists and politicians have been fretting publicly over whether China is overheating, whether it is the next Asian meltdown-in-waiting and how long its currency can remain so blatantly undervalued against the dollar...
...they are on all trips and especially the long hauls, the flight attendants are trained to keep an eye out for passengers who aren't handling the flight well: then the crew will engage them in conversation, offer them a drink or something to eat--all designed to lower the travelers' stress level. My stress was so low I decided I had to sleep. I easily dropped off and caught a four-hour nap. The cleverly designed seats have a headrest that bends to form a kind of a pillow: no embarrassing head drops onto your neighbor's shoulder...