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...cover headline for your story on why diarrhea kills millions of children every year was meant to be the remedy for the condition: "A Fistful of Sugar + A Pinch of Salt + A Jug of Water" [Oct. 16]. The formula, however, was missing a crucial word: clean. The lack of clean water is the problem and the real cause of diarrhea in most cases. Anyone who has spent time in a refugee camp knows that it takes a lot of effort to purify water?and that you need the right tools to do so. Nevertheless, congratulations on picking this deadly issue...
...cover headline for your story on why diarrhea kills millions of children every year was meant to be the remedy for the condition: "A Fistful of Sugar + A Pinch of Salt + A Jug of Water" [Oct. 16]. The formula, however, was missing a crucial word: clean. The lack of clean water is the problem and the real cause of diarrhea in most cases. Anyone who has spent time in a refugee camp knows that it takes a lot of effort to purify water - and that you need the right tools to do so. Nevertheless, congratulations on picking this deadly issue...
...captives were fed twice a day: chopped raw vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers and onions, wrapped in flat, unleavened bread. Sometimes, a spoonful of hummus was added to the vegetables. A 2-liter plastic jug was in his cell on the first day; when it ran out, Waddah would knock on his door and ask the guard for a refill. Once a day, the captives were taken to the toilet in groups of five. Their hands bound behind them, they would queue up at a tap just outside the toilet. One by one, the captives were untied, and they filled...
...they lose critical body fluids faster than they can be replaced. Like Jharana, their family members don't know how to prepare a life-saving remedy that can be assembled for just a few pennies: a large pinch of salt and a fistful of sugar dissolved in a jug of clean water, the simplest recipe for oral rehydration solution. "To save the life of a person with diarrhea is probably the cheapest health intervention you can think of," says David Sack, an American doctor who is the ICDDR's executive director. Cheap; but nothing like as commonly available...
...passionate following of wine geeks. Vintners who make traditional wines, including many of those labeled organic, use a variety of tools and ingredients--oak products, manufactured yeasts, enzymes, defoaming agents and other chemical additives--to influence the flavor and texture of their product, whether it be a $10 jug or a $100 bottle. Natural wines, on the other hand, are created by winemakers who take an artisanal approach to what they produce, basing their decisions in the vineyard and the winery on techniques that allow their wine to develop in the purest way possible. France--no surprise--has the greatest...