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...epidemic requires investing not just in new technologies but also in expanding existing programs to control and detect TB before it even becomes resistant. And dots (Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course) is a critical part of that strategy. Developed in the 1990s, the program requires health officials to be present to watch their patients take their complete course of medications, even if it means visiting them in their homes. In many regions, these officials are now recruiting a host of nonmedical personnel, including family members and religious and community leaders, to become DOTS enablers. In Punjab, retired teachers, shopkeepers...
...students qualify for financial help. “It’s red tape like this that keeps 40 percent of college students from even applying for federal aid. That’s eight million students,” Spellings said. The education secretary also acknowledged problems with the present structure of the American education system and the still-existing achievement gap. “Is our education system all it should be? Is it preparing all of our children for success in college and the workforce?” Spellings asked. “In all candor, the answer...
...suspected of becoming partisan once elected to national office? It seems to me that Alaskan Governor Palin would be just the person to help do for America what she has done for Alaska and Wasilla: increase revenues, decrease spending, tax windfalls and ensure greater dividends are returned to her present constituents. So what if she has found only 2% of Alaska's budget to be pork? No one else was looking. In Palin, America just may have a Vice President who knows how to exploit the national government's bureaucracy and lawmakers in favour of her constituents, and such...
...Giovanni Cipollini, who heads Pietrasanta's local pro-resistance association, said he had offered to put Lee in touch with partisans who were present, but that the director refused. "This is very delicate," he says. "When a famous director makes a major movie about a chapter in history, people will believe that his version is the truth." Cipollini led a group distributing flyers of protest at Wednesday's screening in Viareggio, near the setting of the film...
...What I'm talking about is not predicting our predicament in advance, but simply describing it - in compelling, clear and unhedged terms - in the present...