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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...town has to a pharmacy. There, Moussa Traoré, 48--a thin, wan man--dispenses drugs with a studied seriousness. Since last year, he has prescribed 20 mg of zinc daily for about two weeks to children suffering from diarrhea. Throw in oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which has been the main weapon against diarrhea for the past few decades, and a treatment costs less than 30˘--affordable even to Sogola's desperately poor families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Miracle Mineral | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...been the main treatment--in many places the only one--since the early 1970s, when U.N. officials first distributed sachets of sugar and salt to refugees in South Asia in an attempt to reduce cholera deaths. Today, rehydration salts mixed with clean water are given to millions of poor people across Africa and Asia. It works: the glucose in the water slows the exit of fluids from the body, allowing electrolytes to be absorbed through the intestinal walls and thus halting potentially deadly dehydration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Miracle Mineral | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...space in the Loeb Ex with a complex set that allows many of the musical’s locales to be visible at once. For the audience, this means watching the two-hour long play from a set of uncomfortable bleachers; for the cast, it results in the main ensemble being onstage for almost the entire production, resulting in a sense of multidimensionality in a story that is too often reduced to the romance between Danny and Sandy. The subplots are equally compelling as the main narrative, particularly the storyline revolving around around Rizzo’s pregnancy. By keeping...

Author: By ABIGAIL B. LIND, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walker's "Grease" Helps an Old Favorite Run Smoothly | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Snyder commented on the team’s recent streak of wins, citing great team chemistry and talent as the main recipe for success...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 2 Harvard Rolls Past No. 6 Cornell in 9-0 Fashion | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Chris W. Danello ’12, who as UC parliamentarian was the main advocate for censure, said during the hearing that the motion to censure—an expression of the Council’s formal disapproval of a member’s actions that carries no other consequences—was not a personal vendetta against McLeod but rather a “simple question” of upholding the rules...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergraduate Council Votes to Censure VP After Election Scandal | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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