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...zero. Across the Bangladeshi delta, oral rehydration was also gaining ground at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. Teams at both centers knew they had an effective treatment - but they faced resistance from a profession that dismissed such a basic remedy as inferior to costlier IV saline fluids. The opportunity to prove oral rehydration's worth came in the form of a disaster. When Bangladesh's war for independence from Pakistan broke out in 1971, 9 million refugees poured into India, bringing cholera with them. Dilip Mahalanabis, an Indian doctor who had participated...
They’ve got an inferior football team and a lower U.S. News ranking, but Yalies are beating their Cantab counterparts in at least one category: endowment returns. In the 12-month period ending June 30, the New Haven safety school’s endowment-return rate topped Harvard’s by 6.2 percentage points—the second straight year that the Elis’ investors have bested the Crimson’s team...
...making the Ivy League schools your focus, you perpetuated the idea of these schools as the nation's élite, most desirable campuses. Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. have their counterparts on the left coast in the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford; and Caltech. These campuses are certainly not inferior to the Ivy League campuses, and one of them is a public institution. D. BLAIR GIBSON UCLA, B.A. '78, PH.D. '90 EL CAMINO COLLEGE Torrance, Calif...
Cornell: 1. An inferior school somewhere way west of Cambridge. 2. The one hockey game of the year you shouldn’t miss...
...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 16 February 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your letter about the condition of my youngest scares me less than you might think. Well-deserved punishment for my having taken the most important step in life so rashly. I begot children with a physically and morally inferior person and cannot complain if they turn out accordingly. Only they will accuse me one day when they are old enough; they will be only too right, unfortunately. So send my poor boy wherever you and Bernstein see fit, if you really think something of it. And even if you silently...