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...otherwise meager diet - and the paella was born. Servants would take banquet scraps home, and farm laborers would search the fields for bits of vegetables and small game, with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics - still common in Spain - where whole...
...otherwise meager diet-and the paella was born. Servants would take banquet scraps home, and farm laborers would search the fields for bits of vegetables and small game, with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics-still common in Spain-where whole...
AIDS was the last thing Gui Xien expected to find in the remote peasant villages of China's Henan province. But when he visited there in 1999, as a favor to a fellow doctor whose patients were dying from a mysterious disease, it didn't take Gui long to make a diagnosis. The stories were all the same: first the husband would fall ill, then his wife, and after a few months, both would be dead, covered in sores and dark, wine-colored blotches. Gui had stumbled on a full-fledged AIDS epidemic, something he had only read about...
What Farmer and his Boston-based charity, Partners in Health (P.I.H.), did in Haiti--the poorest, most disease-ridden country in the western hemisphere--is build a showcase public-health system that each year delivers high-quality medical care to 1.3 million peasant farmers, about one-sixth the country's population. There he also helped rewrite the protocol for treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis and pioneered several medical practices at the time deemed hopelessly quixotic--such as giving impoverished AIDS patients first-line antiretroviral drugs (ARVs)--that have since been widely adopted...
...Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies—informally known as the Russian Research Center—in 1948. He officially joined the Harvard faculty in 1951 and taught until 1979. Moore published his most influential work, “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World” in 1966. Moore’s earliest scholarship was in the field of Russian politics and power. It was after publishing his 1950 work, “Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power” that Moore joined the Russian Research...