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...developing countries, screening is not that common," says Dr. Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, lead author of the study and head of the screening group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. There are small-scale cancer screening efforts underway primarily in urban areas throughout Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but they serve only a tiny slice of the population who would benefit, according to Sankaranarayanan. For example, "in India, less than one million pap smears are taken each year," he says, a fraction of the more than 200 million women who are at risk for developing cervical cancer...
...President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown—fresh off his humiliating trip to Latin America—tussled with Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the priorities of immediate stimulus versus regulation, Paramount Leader Hu Jintao quietly positioned China as the champion of the entire, unrepresented developing world. Meanwhile, President Lula da Silva of Brazil—the planet’s most popular politician, with an 80% approval rating—explicitly blamed the irrationality of white, blue-eyed beasts of prey for the financial crisis...
...texts on campus, claiming Chinese literature in the original and even a massive ancient Greek dictionary that lies eternally open. There are eleven stacked shelves in the Dunster library, which necessitates a ladder to access books on the top rows. Below a low-hanging chandelier, there is even a Latin inscription specially written for the library: bibliothecae aedium Dunsteranium pristinae (of the venerable/ancient library of the Dunster Dwelling...er House), which was given in the year MDCCCCXXX (1930). Very sweet...
...chairs and couches, the best part of the library is a well-lit reading room tucked away in the back corner, where you can bring together a study group for discussion. If you’re there by yourself, it’s also lovely to gaze at the Latin and Greek classics as well as more exotic volumes like The Thousand and One Nights...
...tucked away in the back, and find a treasure-trove of the most fascinating old books. The air reeks of old paper. One can find anything in the Lowell stacks: a manual of economic history, a bound volume of Plato in ancient Greek, a polemic from a Latin professor at Princeton 100 years ago on why study of the classics in the original Latin and Greek should remain required for all college students. Those stairs—though rickety—are an unforgettable portal to the past...