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...Yemen: The New New Frontier Instead of sending tens of millions of dollars to Yemen for military purposes, the U.S. should be spending funds to eliminate illiteracy and poverty [Jan. 18]. Building schools with qualified teachers and medical clinics in every village would truly help the people of Yemen. Robert Read Sr. Hickory...
...authors who draw on lengthy experience reporting on China and are interested in democracy and civil society. Gilley claims to know what the future holds for China. Johnson, though, focuses on telling a series of revealing tales about acts of resistance, like efforts by a crusading lawyer to help farmers fight unfair local taxes. He offers some thoughts on where China might be heading, but is generally content just trying to help readers think more clearly about the country's present...
Thousands of patients like deBronkart are learning as much online - and from one another - as they are from their doctors. These laypeople are banding together and starting websites to help figure out which practitioners to see and which hospitals to avoid, which clinical trials show promise and which experimental treatments are bunk. But as people take more control of their health care - joining an empowerment movement many are calling Patient 2.0 - plenty of doctors are worried about the quality of the information that is being assessed as well as patients' ability to understand it. Or as Duke neurology professor...
...private-sector initiative already has about 50,000 patients inputting their symptoms and treatment regimens and updating details of their disease progression. Wonder how others are coping with your particular ailment? PatientsLikeMe.com spells it out via color-coded charts and graphs. "When you need help, privacy is a terrible thing," says Jamie Heywood, who co-founded PatientsLikeMe in 2004 before his brother died of Lou Gehrig's disease...
...rebuilding this nation. President Obama and Congress should offer potential enlistees in all branches of the armed services the option to be sent only to Haiti. There are many Americans who may not support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who would surely enlist in a volunteer effort to help assist Haitians recovering from the horrible earthquake...