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Dangerous malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa have a new foe: the next-generation Olyset bed net, which is made of a durable plastic weave impregnated with the insecticide permethrin and stays potent for five years. Lighter, cheaper and more colorful than previous versions, the Nguvu ya Ajabu (Swahili for Magic Power) is being manufactured in Tanzania for cost-effective distribution. Also new: curtains and door screens cut from the same material...
...Harvard women’s fencing team will have lots to give thanks for this Thursday after their domination of Ivy foe Columbia in a 19-8 victory in New York. Their male counterparts, however, could not leash the Lions, losing a dishearteningly close 14-13 battle with the Ivy title defenders...
That loud groaning noise heard across northeast Asia this month was the sound of government officials in three countries realizing, to their horror, that President George W. Bush had been re-elected. One of those three is an implacable and longtime American foe, North Korea. Another is a would-be American global competitor, China. And the third is a U.S. ally, South Korea...
...monitoring the health reports out of Ramallah more avidly than Arafat's old foe Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. For perhaps the final time, the two lions of the Middle East conflict find their destinies entwined. Sharon has promised that if Arafat is able to return, Israel won't block him. But just as a potentially seismic shake-up of the Palestinian leadership was developing, there were deep rumblings on the Israeli side as well. Sharon won approval last week in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for a bill scheduling the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from Gaza to begin next...
...Frozen Four, Harvard faced off against a familiar foe in the first round, defeating St. Lawrence for the fourth time on the season...