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...National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a statement in response to the study, published Oct. 6 in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, warning that "that there is no substitute for the most effective means known to reduce the risk of [sudden infant death syndrome, or] SIDS: always placing infants for sleep on their backs...
...Down Easy,” which was conceived, written, and performed by Smith and will run at the American Repertory Theatre through Saturday, is indeed a hunt: we travel from her Maryland hometown to Harvard to Rwanda to New Orleans, searching for affirmation that humans really aren’t that bad and finding at the end that the stories that persist with us are those that weigh down the heart. Despite Smith’s best efforts, “Let Me Down Easy” serves as a reminder that, although grace exists, it remains hidden and hard...
...Marcel E. Moran ’11, a Crimson editorial writer,, is a Human Evolutionary Biology concentrator in Eliot House...
...1990s, a severe famine is thought to have left up to a million North Koreans dead. Though aid workers say the country is not facing a full-blown famine, the shortage appears to be the worst food crisis since the 1990s. Erica Kang, director of the Seoul-based human-rights group Good Friends, says a "few hundred thousand people are in danger or at risk of famine" in North Korea. Marcus Noland, an expert on the North Korean economy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, believes that "hunger deaths are almost surely returning...
...Africa turning the corner came Monday, in the form of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's finding that governance is improving in 31 out of 48 sub-Saharan African countries. Even more astonishing, the measure of good governance showing most improvement, on a continent notorious for tyrants and bloodshed, was human rights. "Obscured by many of the headlines of the past few months, the real story coming out of Africa is that governance performance across a large majority of African countries is improving," said Ibrahim, the billionaire boss of Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone giant, at a press conference...