Word: humanities
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...enough, the government is committed to increasing the living standards of the hundreds of millions of Indians in rural areas who live on less than $2 a day, while ameliorating the state of the cities to which many of them are flocking, in a mass urbanization that in human history has been rivaled only by the one now under way in China. (See pictures of India's tempestuous Nehru dynasty...
...measure of its challenges make it a special case. If India can translate raw figures of economic growth into widely shared prosperity, then it will not just be Indians who benefit. It will be the whole world, as democracy will be shown to be compatible with improvement in human development at a similar scale as China's. (Read "China Vs. India: Will Rivalry Lead...
...accommodating displaced communities. There was no treatment other than rest and fresh air. An American scientist had purified an antibiotic, streptomycin, that raised hopes by showing a remarkable ability to kill tuberculosis bacteria in a lab dish. But nobody knew whether the compound would prove effective--or safe--in human patients...
...paranoia it deserves. Or lately, it borrows the paranoia from a previous generation. ABC's V (the highest-rated new show of the fall) is a remake, or in the new parlance, "reimagining," of a camp-classic 1980s miniseries about an alien takeover, which used its lizards-in-human-clothing story as an allegory for the rise of Nazism...
...routine gynecological exams, the rate of cervical cancer in the U.S. has fallen more than 50% - in 1975 there were 14.8 cases per 100,000 women, and by 2006, only 6.5 per 100,000 women. But the cancer, which is primarily caused by infection with the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), is rare among teens under 20. Only about 14 cases are reported each year in the U.S. in teenagers, compared with 123 cases among women ages 20 to 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers were low enough in young women to prompt...