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...kids and teens drown annually - 480 per day - with children under 5 at the greatest risk. Keeping kids close to home is no guarantee of safety, since in or around the house is where most drownings take place. In lower-income countries, the greatest danger is in open bodies of water or in water-collection systems. In richer countries, swimming pools and the ocean are the most dangerous. Using flotation devices, providing effective resuscitation, fencing swimming pools and removing or covering water hazards are all recommended...
Spending Where It Counts Sol Kerzner is reported as having spent some $20 million on an extravaganza to open his Atlantis resort in Dubai, to which he invited the very rich and famous [Dec. 1]. Yet in his own home town of Johannesburg where, as in the rest of South Africa, over half the population is under 25 and many are AIDS orphans, this generation - and the next - faces widespread unemployment, a struggle for education in derelict and under-resourced schools, and homelessness in an environment riddled with crime. The challenge goes out to Kerzner to put an equivalent...
...afford new ones. I became a sort of exotic figure, took a lot of drugs, had a lot of sex with people I never saw again. Did lots of things that would kill you now, but it was that sort of time. Everyone was nice and open and I came at a time when it was easier to be a black woman in America than ever before. I was lucky, and also I was kind of stupid in the sense that I didn’t know I could be heard. It was a fools threading where angels fared...
...priest believes that open burials are a fulfillment of the central tenet of his religion, which is to practice good deeds. With a forlorn expression, he notes that, 3,000 years after the tradition of open burials began, there are not enough Zoroastrians left alive to keep the tower in Yazd open. Instead, today's Zoroastrians who want to observe traditional burial practices must request in their will that their body is sent to a forested suburb in Mumbai, India, where the last Tower of Silence still operates...
...balance by pushing for prosecution. One former NATO official in Afghanistan compares the warlords to shrapnel lodged in an artery - infection is a risk, he says, but pulling it out could be even worse. "There are so many other things we have to worry about, so why go and open this can of worms...