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Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall...
...mounting number of facts to persuade us otherwise. The greatest obstacle to fixing the penny problem is cultural awareness. My two cents: We have reached a point where common sense necessitates retiring the common cent. Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall...
...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...