Word: ironized
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...medications that Western doctors take for granted is another adjustment. Even in the Centers of Excellence, which represent the higher end of medical care available in Africa, supply chains aren't always reliable. "There are still many challenges here with labs and medicine - not ARVS but things like iron supplements or antibiotics like penicillin that are not consistently available," Megan Harkless e-mailed last week from Botswana. "There is still stigma and fear, and families that are financially very limited with no [electrical] power and therefore no refrigerator. Some patients have to travel for several hours or even an full...
...been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions in the name of health and safety...
...Women who ate more than 1 1/2 servings of red meat a day had nearly double the risk, compared with those who ate three or fewer servings a week. The authors offered several theories for what's behind the correlation. One possibility is that red meat delivers too much iron in a form that promotes cancer. Another is that carcinogens form in meat as it is cooked. Yet another (and one that I would bet on) is that conventionally raised beef carries residues of the hormones ranchers give cattle to make them grow faster...
...mail. Not all students care about their missing greens. “I didn’t really like spinach to begin with, so it didn’t really bother me,” says Andrea L. Daniel ‘09. Put down those iron supplements—it’s safe to go to the D-hall...
...Iron-starved students have gotten a reprieve as spinach returned to Dining Hall menus Saturday night in the form of Chicken Florentine, and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Assistant Director of Marketing Crista Martin said that students can expect to see fresh spinach return to the salad bars sometime this week...