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...pretends that even with these results malaria is anywhere near beaten. Two more years of testing followed by the bureaucratic labyrinth of the approval process - to say nothing of the logistical headache of actually getting a vaccine to the people who need it - means millions more are still almost certain to die. For that reason the 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...
...last week’s announcement, Harvard officials said they planned “to take advantage of Harvard’s strong credit ratings to increase the University’s flexible cash resources in the near term...
...group is based in Kashmir, the land that India and Pakistan have been clashing over since Partition in 1947. Estimates differ, but somewhere near half a million people may have died in massacres and pogroms in the year following the division of Pakistan and India. Whole communities of Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims were slaughtered, and the streets of Delhi ran with blood, as William Dalrymple writes in his history of the city, “City of Djinns.” In 1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after ordering a raid on the religion?...
...Jantzen’s victory propelled him to an equally stunning semifinal performance Saturday morning, when the young grappler overcame his second top-five wrestler, this time with a fall. Drouin lasted only 2:02, setting the stage for the sophomore’s final dominant performance. Despite the near-pin against Nauman, Jantzen jumped out to an 8-0 championship lead, leaving little doubt that the sophomore has arrived on the national stage...
...short month after their Halloween concert, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) tackled another ambitious program at Sanders Theatre. The concert showcased the HRO’s musical maturity, as the orchestra effectively delivered three pieces in radically different styles. The continuing creativity of conductor James Yannatos, who is near the end of his long tenure, was also on display; he premiered his sixth symphony...