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That's good news for anyone trying to control tuberculosis, which has proven particularly difficult to track in the poorest parts of the world, where medical equipment has to be both affordable and robust. Where clinic staff lack the advanced lab resources to culture TB samples, they test for TB by smear microscopy - a laborious and often ineffective process in which a patient coughs up some sputum and a technician looks at the sample under a microscope, trying to pick out the bacteria by eye. That method "is very good at finding people who are infectious," says Liz Corbett...
...with Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep). The first movie, about a man's search for his soldier son killed after returning from Iraq, was gripping, suspenseful, poignant. Rendition, detailing the torture of an Egyptian American under U.S. auspices, sank under the burden of its plot contrivances. But quality, or lack of it, was irrelevant to audiences. They avoided both films like summer school...
...British government isn't particularly happy with its national treasure either. In 2003 it fell out with the BBC over its coverage of the Iraq war. The current Prime Minister Gordon Brown seems to share his predecessor's lack of enthusiasm. At a September press conference Brown gestured to a journalist that it was his turn at the microphone. As the journalist identified himself, Brown motioned him to stop. The event had barely begun, and the PM had already answered questions from four BBC correspondents. Now here was a fifth. Brown didn't care that each journalist represented different...
...Mauritius is good Africa, Angola is not. An élite cadre of government figures, Angolan bosses and foreign oil companies holds on to the soar-away gains of its 35% growth while the country stagnates in destitution and inflation. Partly that's due to the lack of a diversified economy to harness the oil wealth. As a foreign diplomat puts it, "If you're dying of thirst, you can't drink from a fire hose. The water comes out too fast." But it's also due to corruption: a 2004 Human Rights Watch report claimed that $4.22 billion...
...MDRI lauds Serbian authorities for their "enormous candor in admitting to poor treatment practices," and for adopting new laws and programs designed to remedy the situation. But the laws are rarely enforced and the programs suffer from chronic lack of funding...