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...eradicated in those countries in the 1950s. In other words, fighting malaria is good for business--as many companies with overseas operations have long understood. By the end of this year, Exxon Mobil, which plans to expand activities in the sub-Saharan countries of Chad, Cameroon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria, hopes to triple its funding for antimalaria projects and research, from $2 million to $6 million. But the malaria problem is bigger than Exxon Mobil or even Bill and Melinda Gates. Government action is needed...
...dangerous amounts of ultraviolet rays. Before blasting 31 doses of radiation, lab technicians place on his back a quilt made of 30-odd fabric samples. Twenty-four hours later, Hughes goes back for evaluation. It is a strange routine, since Hughes is a skin-cancer survivor. "I'm a guinea pig," he says...
...luckily for Breck, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences had just approved a Program of Special Standing, giving qualified students the option to skip freshman year and enroll in the College as sophomores. Breck was chosen to be the first guinea...
American fans respond to a basket by yawning. We just score so often—nobody cares. We won by 40 over Papua New Guinea? Great. We beat Slovakia by 13? Why so few? And where’s Slovakia...
While his friends Michael Somare and Mekere Morauta became prime ministers of Papua New Guinea, lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner SIR ANTHONY SIAGURU spent most of his career working on the sidelines of public life. There - courtly, charming, endlessly energetic - he often seemed to be everywhere at once. In a country increasingly distrustful of its leaders, Siaguru's civic-mindedness and stubborn integrity earned him vast respect...