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...World Health Organization and other groups are stepping up their push to deliver pesticides and mosquito-resistant bed nets across Africa. Those efforts by themselves have rolled back parasite prevalence by 50% in Zambia. Add that to an even imperfect vaccine and you get closer and closer to the moment when today's plague becomes yesterday's memory...
...quite a shock—sharing bathrooms with the opposite sex,” she recalls. “In my country you have the female dorms and male dorms, but here you had an integrated dorm. It was a memorable moment finding that...
...took a pass from teammate Kelly Cahill and put the puck in the back of the net at 10:03.Soon after, UNH earned back-to-back penalties for holding and hooking, giving Harvard another 5-on-3 power play. This time around, Harvard seized the opportunity to score.The shining moment came when senior Sarah Wilson scored at 18:46, with assists from Vaillancourt and sophomore Kate Buesser, tying the game 1-1 to close the second period.It was the seventh goal of the season for Wilson, who leads the team with 13 points.In the third, Harvard managed its highest number...
...Russia is looking to the post-Georgia strategic environment, and the change of administration in Washington, as a moment to press forward with its own initiatives to reengineer the European security system along post-Cold War lines, eclipsing NATO, which is, after all, an institution based on Cold War strategic rivalry. On Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev seemed to allude to skepticism Obama has expressed about the missile shield's effectiveness by calling on the new administration "to take constructive, reasonable stance, to show willingness to compromise on the most difficult issues." Moscow has also initiated a Europe-wide security...
...that last comment, some observers saw an implied threat: if the Chinese, who are massive buyers of U.S. Treasury debt, took their money and went home, the repercussions for America would be catastrophic. At a moment when the already large U.S. budget deficit is poised to skyrocket, thanks to the various bailouts and stimulus packages Washington has passed to cope with the economic crisis, a pullout of Chinese assets would send interest rates soaring, and a deepening recession could become something worse...