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...third time in 12 days, 6-month-old Ullash has been admitted to the ICDDR's children's ward; just one of 325 patients admitted within the last 24 hours. The boy weighs only 69% of the expected weight for his age and is malnourished. He has a high fever, a cough and persistent diarrhea. His parents, Jurin and Nazdin, educated Dhaka residents, wait anxiously as he receives intravenous fluids. "We don't understand where this is coming from," says Nazdin. But Sack, the center's executive director, knows. Malnutrition and diarrhea go hand-in-hand, and in Bangladesh both...
...well as college campus campaigns to get as many people as possible vaccinated before the worst of the winter weather hits. Getting vaccinated isn't a guarantee that you will fend off a bout with the flu, but it's a smart insurance policy against those aches and fever...
...November elections approach, Harvard students can be assured that political fever will engulf the campus. The Harvard College Democrats (Dems) and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) will compete to rally students to their sides, and intense partisanship will flare up. But that’s far from a bad thing—in fact it’s healthy and natural for students to express their political affiliation enthusiastically and take the initiative to support those candidates who endorse policies they support...
...French intelligence service, Direction Generale des Services Exteriors (DGSE), saying that Saudi intelligence officials "seem to have become convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead." The report quoted by the newspaper said the Saudis believe bin Laden "might have succumbed to a very serious case of typhoid fever resulting in partial paralysis of his lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006." Echoing that report, a Saudi source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told TIME that Saudi officials have received multiple reports over the last several weeks that Bin Laden has been suffering from a water-borne illness. "This...
...tradition of fiscal conservatism, of saving rather than spending. Yet the combination of a GDP rising at 8% per annum and one of the world's youngest populations (more than 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24) means spending power has shifted to those with a fever for fashion. Add to that the booming media in the world's largest democracy bringing brand awareness, plus the reduction of once punitive import taxes, and India starts looking like a gold mine?except for its labyrinthine bureaucracy, which can be as time consuming as it was in the days...