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...weight had dropped to 2.75 kg, just over one-third of that expected for her age, and she now seems to be little more than a distended stomach, bulging head and collection of scrawny limbs. According to the chart at the foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root of her problem is chronic diarrhea, a daily killer of 5,000 young children in the developing world and the cause of one-third of child deaths in Bangladesh. Her 15-year-old mother, Jharana, had never heard of diarrhea before she was advised...
...three years in Japanese custody. "After Pearl Harbor, my secure and settled life was just swept away. It taught me that conventional reality can't be trusted, that human beings are not always governed by reason. They can be very cruel." Ballard's wife, Mary, died of pneumonia in 1964, leaving him to raise their three children alone. For nearly 40 years, he has had the help and companionship of Claire Churchill Walsh, a magazine editor. For a writer of his talent and durability, Ballard has won oddly few honors. (A republican, he declined a Commander of the British Empire...
...ahead of Princeton’s 69 percent.Yale officials did not return requests for comment yesterday. Yale President Richard C. Levin said last week that Yale would review its early admission policies.“The old adage is, ‘When Harvard sneezes, everyone else gets pneumonia,’” Bruce Breimer, director of college relations at the Collegiate School in New York, said last week. But will schools with lower yields—and more to lose from scrapping their binding early decision programs—catch Harvard and Princeton’s cold...
...adage is, ‘When Harvard sneezes, everyone else gets pneumonia,’” Bruce Breimer, director of college relations at the Collegiate School in New York, said last week...
...adage is, ‘When Harvard sneezes, everyone else gets pneumonia,’” said Bruce Breimer, school principal and director of college relations at the Collegiate School in New York. “It’s going to cause everyone else to re-evaluate...