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...screens can take anywhere from two weeks to two months, during which time doctors protectively place infected patients on first-line drugs too weak to battle the aggressive strain effectively rather than risk the overuse of last-resort medications that would only feed drug resistance. And in Africa in particular, tuberculosis is nurtured alongside AIDS in a deadly double hit: The weakened immune systems of H.I.V. patients make them more vulnerable to TB infection, and because their crippled immune systems can no longer mount proper responses, H.I.V. patients infected with TB often don't produce the recognizable symptoms...
...particular, Piano has become the go-to guy for any institution about to undertake a tricky expansion. "I'm not looking for trouble," he says, laughing. "But I never find myself in an easy space, where they say to me, 'O.K., here's a piece of land--go do it.'?" At 71, he's well known for the clarity of his problem-solving in complicated spaces. "Today," he says, "the discussion of architecture is based too often on how funny you can be with making new shapes. We all know that making new shapes is not very difficult. What...
McCain has proclaimed this crisis too important for partisan politics--at the same time he was releasing an ad blaming it on Democrats in general and Obama in particular--but in modern Washington nothing is too important for partisan politics, especially a month before an election. Members in tight races don't think a lot about statesmanship; they think about survival. Even if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House minority leader John Boehner wanted to unite their caucuses behind a bill they thought the country needed, they don't have the power of a Sam Rayburn or a Tom DeLay...
...significant inroads on elite campuses, report that the number of students turning in applications by the first deadline skyrocketed. Peace Corps administrators report an uptick in applicants, as do graduate schools of all sorts. And if Barack Obama—the heartthrob of liberals and college students, and a particular one for liberal college students—wins the presidency this November, more of us would probably head south to the Potomac than in any year since 1992, and potentially since...
...colloquium organizers said they anticipate that students will find the seminars beneficial. “I think the students will enjoy the speakers because they’ll bring some novel types of messages to the campus,” Reid said. “It will be of particular interest to students with interdisciplinary interests.” Both Rizzi and Chayes were chosen for the colloquium series by the IIC. The IIC and SEAS plan on alternating choice of seminar leaders, with SEAS picking next semester’s speakers...