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...what about prevention? Many African countries are working to sell or distribute low-cost insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets. These function as traps for mosquitoes, which are attracted by the carbon dioxide that sleepers exhale and are then killed by the insecticide. The nets are portable, so they can be taken along by their owners if they need to move. In villages where at least 80% of pregnant women and children under age 5 sleep beneath insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets, the rate of illness for all residents has dropped dramatically. Unfortunately, only 1% or 2% of people in malarial zones sleep...
...million. LG has the electronics world bracketed. At the commodity end, low-cost plants in China make the firm a power in developing markets. At the big-bucks, high-tech end, LG's home in broadband-rich South Korea has fostered a focus at LG on design and function that fits perfectly into the emerging digital home. Last year LG was the world's largest seller of mobile phones operating on the cdma standard (a type of mobile-phone technology popular in Korea and North America). It makes dazzling flat-screen televisions and other leading-edge gadgets. LG.Philips...
...Bureau was singled out in the report as needing to redefine and focus its function on campus. University Provost Steven E. Hyman said this spring the Bureau was experiencing “mission creep” as it began to extend itself beWhile the report did not call for the reorganization of the Bureau itself, Ducey’s departure has left the future of the Bureau’s administrative structure up in the air, despite reassurances that the basic structure of the Bureau will remain unchanged...
...that at no time did Harvard know of or engage in any fraudulent conduct, a position which Harvard has been asserting to the government since the inception of the lawsuit,” he said. “As to the breach of contract claim, even that is a function of conduct of which the University was unaware...
...also the fact that many of the key leaders of the new government have little reason to expect that they'd be returned to power by the voters, the temptation may arise to delay the election. But the security crisis that could be sparked by such a move might function as a restraint. Instead, the new government may be hoping that if tough measures restore a modicum of security in Iraqis' lives, they may be inclined to vote for the incumbents come next January...