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...daughter," says a villager. Pranee visited a clinic, but like her child, was sent home, and then returned to Bangkok. Less than two weeks later, Pranee died of bird flu, the country's 10th confirmed victim of the disease?but one with a major distinction. On Sept. 28, a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and Thai investigation announced what scientists studying the H5N1 bird-flu virus had long feared: Pranee hadn't contracted the disease from chickens. She had almost certainly caught it in the hospital while nursing her dying daughter. Human-to-human transmission of the virus was possible...
...might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those with power and resources are either flagrantly inattentive or maliciously disengaged from this plight because there is no joint intellectual and grassroots pressure. For example, we praise President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative, but Europeans spend $11 billion a year on ice cream alone. For those not yet convinced, I offer the lack of sufficient response to the rampant genocide of black Africans in Sudan. Maybe...
...While Turkish poverty remains a worry, an impact assessment published last week by the European Commission found that both Turkey and the E.U. stood to gain economically from accession. Ironically, the failed adultery amendment was part of a reform package that has boosted women's rights, recognizing them as joint heads of households and splitting couples' assets equally after a divorce. Even Nebahat Akkoc, head of the leading women's center Ka-Mer (and a TIME European Hero in 2003), is impressed: "I spent my life fighting for these laws and suddenly they are on the books." She adds, however...
There’s no denying that individual media outlets cover events differently. Just look at the headlines. When interim Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi addressed a joint session of Congress recently, reporters from both Fox News and CNN attended the same speech—but they didn’t write the same stories. The headline on CNN.com read, “Bush: US Won’t Abandon Iraqi People.” Fox News chose the simpler: “Allawi: Thank You America.” Judging only from the headlines, Fox?...
...department’s new recruitment efforts may be coupled with a joint attempt by black student groups and University President Lawrence H. Summers to recruit more minority faculty to the College, according to Black Students Association President Lawrence E. Adjah...