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...Maathai along with several other achievers from Africa will continue to inform the world that even though the political and economic steps of development are still being choreographed, Africa has the intellectual ability to promote the peaceful and economic fortunes of its people. Daniel A. Owujie Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
...Maathai along with several other achievers from Africa will continue to inform the world that even though the political and economic steps of development are still being choreographed, Africa has the intellectual ability to promote the peaceful and economic fortunes of its people. Daniel A. Owujie Port Harcourt, Nigeria Singapore's Downside The Time 100 profile of Singapore's senior statesman Lee Kuan Yew [April 18] left no doubt that he has designed and developed a modern city?state that is a role model for Asian economies. Your story unambiguously described the power of this "philosopher king" in shaping Singapore...
...world. That year four groups--WHO, Rotary International, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)--made it their goal to vaccinate polio out of existence, and with the help of private and government funding, they came tantalizingly close. By 2003, the virus was confined to six countries--Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India--and was seemingly headed for extinction by 2005. But nobody reckoned on the Muslim clerics in northern Nigeria...
...Mecca and then returned to their home countries, perhaps carrying more than just their memories with them. Investigators are still looking into the possibility that the outbreak last week in Indonesia was linked to the pilgrimage. Only a 2003 case in Lebanon is unconnected to either the hajj or Nigeria...
...other countries in which polio has re-emerged are getting intensive attention too. In Nigeria there are six nationwide rounds of vaccinations scheduled for 2005. In other countries, such as Yemen, Egypt and India, the immunization program is getting a boost from a so-called monovalent vaccine, which more effectively knocks out the Type 1 poliovirus circulating in those areas. But even the best immunization campaign will leave a lot of poliovirus at large, at least for a while. WHO and other groups still hope to eradicate the disease this year in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, where polio was endemic...