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...fifth floor of a fading pink-and-green building in New Delhi, Dr. Ashok Jhingan is waging a desperate battle against a relentless medical foe. In an office that's only a few degrees cooler than the sweltering city outside, Jhingan and his small team of doctors are tackling what could be India's biggest emerging health problem. No, it's not aids or cholera or malaria, each of which is tragically entrenched among the country's 1 billion people...
...same place that first brought me into contact with all the best parts of Lamont: the reference room, replacing the people who are the very core of Lamont’s resources. Moreover, reports of the Lamont renovation committee suggest that the reference desk will move to the third-floor stacks. Where, then, will we put the students who study there? And how will the main reading room preserve any quiet...
...last week up to 20 were still perishing every day. Despite the addition of four field hospitals, existing facilities are badly overstretched. Bantul's hospital does not have enough beds for all the injured, and some are parked in cots in the hallways or on bamboo mats on the floor. Even the healthy are taking shelter in hospitals. "For every patient you have three to four family members," says Harsaran Pandey, the World Health Organization's spokesperson for Southeast Asia. "A lot of the inpatients [stay] because they and their families have no place to go. As no hospital...
...obscure and interesting subjects taught by people who spent their lives studying those subjects,” she says. Scott, who was on the junior varsity fencing team, suspects that her freshman dormmates were assigned to Canaday according to their first names. She says, “On my floor we had two Lisas, a Louisa and a Melissa. Downstairs we had John, John, Jim, and Joe, all Jewish. Across the firedoor were Andy, Andy, Steve, and Steve. There were rooms like this all over Canaday.” When she was an upperclassman, Scott met her future life partner...
...August, September, October, this is a resources game," Emanuel told TIME late one night after a day of West Coast fund raising. He was a bit more direct after a recent meeting he had with Dean to discuss the matter. Emanuel cursed and stormed out to go to the floor and vote, according to witnesses. "I wish the Democratic divisions could go away," Pelosi said when asked about the Dean dispute. "There's so much at stake here...