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...successful, any antimalaria campaign must do two things: treat the illness and prevent the transmission of parasites. Several pilot studies conducted in Africa have proved that combination therapy, in which at least one of the medications is derived from a plant called Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, easily destroys drug-resistant malarial parasites in the bloodstream. Using several drugs at once, often in the same pill, greatly decreases the risk that the parasites will become resistant. As an added bonus, artemisinin, the active ingredient in Artemisia annua, acts very quickly, further decreasing the chances of drug resistance...
...thousands of manufactured foods (one appeal: it withstands heat better than alternatives do), is also going into new mid-calorie sodas from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Earlier this year, Splenda was okayed for sale in the European Union. Tate is spending $30 million to expand its sole Splenda plant, in Alabama. The potential catch: many Splenda users are converting from real sugar--Tate's main business. Says Charlie Mills, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in London: "People are forgetting how much of Tate's other business can be threatened by this." --By Barbara Kiviat...
...their 35-hour week in return for a guarantee that their jobs would not be moved to Eastern Europe. "Everyone had come to accept the fatality of it - either they approved it or they lost their jobs," says Serge Truscello, a Bosch employee and union leader at the plant. In June, workers at two Siemens mobile-phone factories in Germany agreed to extend their workweek from 35 to 40 hours with no extra pay in order to keep 2,000 jobs from being shifted to Hungary. That created a copycat effect, as other German companies demanded worker concessions at their...
...money," Birol says. In a report on energy investments issued last fall, the IEA said Europeans would have to invest $1.3 trillion over the next 30 years. The problem used to be that prices were too low, averaging €25-€30 per MW-h, so building new plants didn't make economic sense. Prices are now up to about €35 per MW-h - still below the €40 threshold experts say is necessary to make building a new plant economic. Ian Russell, chief executive of Scottish Power, has said prices are still too low for him to invest...
...shoulders with hordes of other visitors in overcrowded malls and theme parks this summer fill you with dread? Then let horticulture come to the rescue: at this time of year, many of the world's destination gardens are looking their best, and you don't have to be a plant buff to enjoy their charms...