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...most severely ill. Still, skepticism about the effectiveness of oral rehydration continued. Several journals refused to publish Mahalanabis' paper about the outbreak. But Dhiman Barua, then head of WHO's bacterial diseases unit in Geneva, Switzerland and a survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies. who rolled out its diarrheal-diseases control program in 1978. "The simplicity and power of this tool gave it its own momentum," Mahalanabis says. Power indeed: the initiative cut total...
...acceptable length both endows Oliver Stone’s recent film “World Trade Center” with tremendous emotional force and casts it as an excruciating exercise in emotional and sensory masochism. The film depicts the “true life events” of Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña). Their 24-hour struggle to survive while trapped under tons of rock and rubble contains too many screams, tears, and fireballs to feel genuine.The real drama develops from the grief experienced by the men?...
Wright's gift to Australian literature is Desperance. A fictional port town bypassed by history and even the tides, which have left it high and dry, Desperance embodies the roots of its name: despair and hope (esprance in French). Wright says Desperance could stand for any Australian town, or Australia itself. And it's her uncanny ear for the particularities of local language and eye for striking symbolism that could carry Carpentaria into the classics sections of bookshelves in years to come. There it would sit comfortably alongside Xavier Herbert's fictional study of Australia's Top End, Capricornia...
...home, and watch the news, and call loved ones and friends and people you know and make sure everyone is safe,” said Ziad M. El-Zaatari ’09, who left Beirut for his family’s home in Sidon, a port city 40 miles south of the capital, on the first day of fighting. Two weeks later, he was evacuated by the U.S. military...
...first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy" order sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said to be ready to move by Oct. 1. But inside the Navy those messages generated more buzz than usual last week when a second request, from the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), asked for fresh eyes on long-standing U.S. plans to blockade two Iranian oil ports on the Persian Gulf. The CNO had asked for a rundown...