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...second article in this week's Lancet shows that heart-disease risk factors are rapidly becoming more common worldwide, even in sub-Saharan Africa, where infectious disease remains a big killer. In theory, African doctors should be among those who benefit most from the new paper's findings. In resource-poor settings, saving the $1 to $3 cost of a lab blood test (in the U.S. it costs $10, according to the Lancet paper) would certainly be meaningful - but that's assuming the tests were being performed to start with. The real savings are difficult to calculate, in large part...
That's Novaya Gazeta at its best: half-tabloid, half-investigative paper, riddled with biases--and still Moscow's premier outlet for speaking truth to power...
...interest in art, Weston said. Bowen attended Smith College and studied multiple subjects, ultimately graduating with a double-major in astronomy and studio art, as well as a minor in physics. At the Straus Center, Bowen gained a reputation as an expert conservator who specialized in art on paper. Colleagues remembered Bowen as someone with a passion for her work who always showed interest in the people around her. “She always had time for you,” said fellow Straus Center conservator Anne Driesse. “She would work all day, but she always...
...Baltimore, as in real life, every choice is connected; as Detective Lester Freamon puts it, “all the pieces matter.” Watching “The Wire” is a lesson in the frustrating compromises that go into everything from publishing a daily paper to convicting a killer to running a city (or country). And for all of us—from future politicians, lawyers, and journalists to garden-variety citizens—it has more than a few important messages about the real troubles that afflict this country. In the world...
...That kind of clarity is still a long way off. Because of an overwhelming turnout on caucus night, Texas Democrats are still counting the ballots, cards, and even the loose slips of paper that precinct captains handed out and then collected on the night of March 4, when roughly one million people turned out. Some precincts were so overwhelmed with attendees that some precinct chairs went to Kinko's to run off extra ballots while others, according to the AP, simply tore down the "DEMOCRATS VOTE HERE" signs and used the backs for signatures - one column for Clinton, another...