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...Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
Inside, giddy girls are transforming themselves from workaday Harvard students in barn jackets and jeans into social butterflies. They step out in ladylike dresses and slip into one of the pairs of perilously high round-toed pumps set out for them. (The heels are said to elongate their legs and give the dresses the right line.) They cinch skinny python belts around their waists, admiring their new selves...
...dollars a year, says Los Alamos executive Allen Morris. Still, he says, "we're running on vapor." Barack Obama--who helped win Senate approval for $3.9 billion in flu preparedness and response plans and wants Bush to appoint a flu czar "so that things like this don't slip through the cracks"--says that making the site subscription-based only is "an example of the insufficient investment" in U.S. readiness for a pandemic. Meanwhile, there are new reminders that birds--and viruses--don't respect borders. Croatia tested dead swans last week for the virulent H5N1 strain, Russia culled infected...
...shut down Hartigan last season, but a furious 14-point, fourth-quarter rally allowed the Bears to slip past Cornell 21-17. Both teams are improved this season, but Brown has progressed slightly more, so take the Bears on the road...
...Sadly, however, that allowed the three best matchups of the weekend to slip through the YES Network’s grasp, something that CN8 jumped on in picking up the Yale-Penn game...