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...against diarrhea is hampered by the lack of clean water and the infrastructure necessary to ensure public health. In countries like Ethiopia, only 40% of people have access to safe water, and fewer than 1 in 3 has regular access to safe sanitation, which at a minimum means a pit latrine. Most Ethiopians don't make the connection between the way they dispose of human waste and their family's health; instead, they believe that "diseases are transmitted by the will of God," says Worku Fentahun, head of health for the Banja district in the country's north...
...Birhanu Worku, who cultivates half a hectare or so of potatoes and barley, was one of the first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked...
...interviewed young women who say they feel so wanton wearing only a headscarf that they will adopt the niqab. Now even 6-year-olds are put into hijabs. Western culture - it is true - is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women...
...pollutants like nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury. Inside, giant HEPA filters (which look just like a nest of vacuum bags) grab most of the solids from the coal fire. You wouldn't want to eat off the floor, but the place is clean. Even the open-pit-mining operation nearby--which has scoured 15,000 acres of Texas for lignite coal over the decades--is a reclamation model, boasting ponds with bass and new woods with baby deer. "The coal plants of today are clearly not like the coal plant of yesteryear," boasts McCall...
When a safety car appears in Formula One (F1) racing, it generally means there is some kind of hazard or debris on the track. Drivers must temporarily slow down, and F1 crews typically use the opportunity to bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when a safety car rolled out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco[an error occurred while processing this directive] Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came...