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After a long period of decline, TB incidence has risen dramatically since the 1980s, despite the improvement of sanitary conditions, the development of anti-TB drugs in the 1950s, and the introduction of the World Health Organization’s directly-observed treatment short-course program for more effective treatment. In 1993, the WHO declared TB a global-health emergency, setting ambitious goals which it later conceded could not be met by 2003 or possibly even 2015. That is to say, the consequences from the years of inadequate treatment and low attention to disease control in resource-poor regions have...
According to Law School professor William P. Alford, student interest in international law, and East Asia in particular, has risen dramatically in recent years...
...vanished--and we're not talking about the final season of Lost. Long the focus of a dispute between India and Bangladesh, New Moore Island, a 1.4-sq.-mi. speck that once sat several feet above sea level, has been claimed by climate change instead. Regional sea levels have risen dramatically over the past decade...
...fiscal deficits of the PIIGS are among the highest in Euroland. Their unit-labor costs have risen faster than anywhere else. So their exports can't compete; hence they run some of the largest current-account deficits. What do you do when you shovel coal and run out of fuel? You borrow - as the PIIGS have done. The markets have cast their verdict on that. Now, Greece has to borrow at twice the interest rate that German bonds fetch...
...South Asians have risen to become leaders in their communities, industries, and government, forging a unique and proud identity in the American landscape. This can sometimes create the illusion that there are no problems in our immigrant community. In reality, South Asians in America face a variety of challenges that we must confront, and one of the most important is the widespread prevalence of domestic abuse in our households. A product of a variety of cultural and societal factors, it is a problem that is shameful and dangerous to ignore...