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...like rotavirus and cholera. When the solution reaches the small intestine, the sugar is moved from the hollow part of the intestine into its mucosal lining through the villi, small fingerlike projections on the intestinal wall. "It's like having a chemical needle in the intestinal tract," says William Greenough, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and a former director of ICDDR. Sugar's chemical properties allow salt to be absorbed more efficiently. The salt then promotes the absorption of water into the capillaries within the intestinal wall, which carry the water...
...unicef found that global access to safe drinking water rose from 1990 to 2004. But 1.1 billion people still don't have clean water; 2.6 billion lack a basic toilet. "That's an infrastructure problem and a development problem that we have not been able to deal with," says Greenough of Johns Hopkins. If the world wants to avoid the needless deaths of yet more children, it's time that...
...community, died suddenly this July. Over the summer, Ekperi returned to her hometown of Washington D.C. to work for the National Institute for Health. She was playing basketball with friends, including Patrick Jean Baptiste ’09, at the National Cathedral School when she died. Ekperi lived in Greenough as a freshman and planned to live in Winthrop House this fall. She was active in the Association of Black Harvard Women and a member of BlackCAST. She also served as social chair of the Freshman Black Table. “She was one of our best members. She always...
...bigger room: Chances are your friends in the Yard will be crammed into bunk beds and closet-like rooms, but most of the rooms outside of the yard are bright and spacious. My freshman year in Greenough, I lived in a corner double with five windows; it was bigger than any room I will have for the next three years...
You’ve never even heard of Greenough, and you don’t remember Pennypacker being one of the historic dorms they said you’d live in when you took a tour of campus. Hurlbut’s name couldn’t be less appealing, and you haven’t the faintest idea where Apley Court...