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Dinglasan - who comes from the Philippines, where some islands are still affected by malaria - sees things in a more basic way. Malaria, he says, is "a dark cloud. We're talking about the deaths of small children. They can't get past the age of 5. I don't know if you can measure the full impact of that." You can't. Nor can you measure the sense of global relief when that kind of suffering is over for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hopes for a New Kind of Malaria Vaccine | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...short, says Field, "we've got a huge number of studies that have given us important insights about how plants will respond to climate change." But there's even more he and his colleagues don't know yet. And that means that any straightforward conclusion about whether climate change is good or bad for plants is by definition extremely premature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Plants May Not Like a Warmer World | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...hardest part in this entire thing is not knowing, because you don't know what is going on,” said Alix, whose parents own orphanages and schools in Haiti. “There are so many people I know who have lost someone, or they know people who have lost someone. There are people who are dying who need to be helped...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lends Helping Hands to a Shaken Country | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...check on the response form, tell them you’ve accepted and will be a student in the fall. No one wants to hear you rattle off the Ivies you’re debating over, so humor us. It will make us happy, and we won't know if you’re lying anyway...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prefrosh Weekend Gets an Extreme Name Makeover | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...been substantial losses in tropical fish, significant damage to the fern industry, and citrus - especially in the northern counties - has sustained damage." The same is true, he says, in South Florida for vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. "Will it be 10%? Twenty percent? Forty percent? We just don't know," says McElroy, "but we are expecting serious damage to various sectors of the industry." (See pictures of the world's farmlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freezing in Frostproof: Saving Florida's Oranges | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

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