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...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...ethnicity is no longer a salient issue. This claim can be backed up by examining the incidence of intermarriage, which in racial theory is often viewed as the final stage of assimilation (interracial intimate relations are expected to increase with weakening ethnic attachments). True to form, Asians have the highest overall intermarriage rates in the nation...
...have been evacuated and hundreds of homes destroyed. But the hot desert winds that fueled the flames began to ease Tuesday night, giving hope that the quick westerly progress of the fire would finally slow. By nightfall, the fires were on the cusp of Rancho Santa Fe, the highest-income community in the United States, which is thick with tall and brittle-dry eucalyptus trees...
...York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has won the 2007 Julius B. Richmond Award, the highest honor given by the Harvard School of Public Health. The award honored the five-year mayor for using the city’s regulatory authority to improve health and safety in New York...
...interests of stakeholders, business community, retailers, wholesalers, as well as law enforcement, community leaders, parents, and local schools,” he said. Harvard Square participants include Border Cafe and the Hong Kong Restaurant. “This is a real honor—one of the highest in substance abuse prevention,” Gisela Rots, director of the CPC, said in a statement released last week. “21 Proof is familiar with the people, the places, and the unique culture within Cambridge and its institutions,” said Ryan M. Travia, director of the Office...