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...Tuberculosis has been one of the major killers around the world,” said Vincent Cheng ’11, who helped organize the event. He added that people often lose sight of tuberculous and other infectious diseases in the developing world. After AIDS, tuberculosis is the second most prevalent infectious disease in the world, according to the documentary...
...scared of the sight of blood. What's my next stop...
...Sight Officially, the Philippines knows it can't sustain having 10% of its population gone for decades at a time, particularly when a worldwide economic recession means fewer jobs overseas and smaller remittance checks sent home. During an October meeting on global migration in Manila, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that millions of migrants were at risk of losing their jobs in the wake of the financial crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state...
Repairing that will require the nation to kick its housing addiction. In future, says Rossa White, chief economist at Davy, a Dublin-based brokerage, "Ireland, as a small economy, will rely on trade to generate increases in living standards. We need to get back to that. We lost sight of it." That won't be easy, as long as major trading partners are themselves caught up in the slowdown; the U.S., for instance, buys roughly a fifth of Ireland's exports. It'll take some time, too, for exporters to redeploy resources such as labor freed by the housing slowdown...
...have power over policy, if you make laws, if you revise laws, you can touch a lot more lives.” I nodded at all of this. Chris spoke with incredible fluency, not an “um” or “like” in sight. He had good posture. He made eye contact. No surprise, he was continuing mock trial and speech and debate at the college level. Sitting across from him on the futon, I felt a little hunched and inarticulate. What exactly did he want to do as president? I asked. What kinds...