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With the cries for intervention and action against the barbaric, state-sponsored slaughter and mass rape in Darfur, Sudan reaching a fever pitch, we hope Harvard doesn’t find itself on the wrong side of such an important issue again...
...Somsak Laemphakwan's chickens started dying in early August, he buried the corpses deep in the ground, hoping to halt the bird flu ravaging his village in northwest Thailand. It didn't work. Later that month, his 11-year-old niece Sakuntala Premphasri developed a stomachache and a high fever. When Somsak took her to a nearby clinic on Sept. 2, nurses dismissed her illness as a common cold. Five days later Sakuntala was back in the clinic, unable to walk and vomiting blood. She was sent to the district hospital, and her mother, Pranee Thongchan, was summoned from Bangkok...
...years of training and over 6,000 consultations a year entitle them to an annual income higher than the $A120,000 the average G.P. earns. They also resent any plan aimed at controlling their charging. "I forewarn the Labor Party," says A.M.A. president Bill Glasson, "not to pursue this fever about bulk billing." It may result, doctors say, in many G.P.s either leaving the workforce or congregating in areas where more people are prepared to pay to see a doctor. The Rural Doctors Association says medicos in remote areas are doing it particularly hard: as well as bearing higher costs...
...People might experience a sudden onset of fever, rash, low blood pressure, and pus in the spinal fluid,” said Alfred DeMaria Jr., director of communicable disease control for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...COVER: LUXURY FEVER Consumers are buying up everything from diamond-encrusted handbags and private jets to souped-up trash cans and designer toilets. How long will the boom last? By Kate Betts...