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While desperation drives many students to forsake sleep for nights of uncomfortable chairs and stagnant air, one group of first-years this exam period just did it for the bragging rights...
That failure is stunning. The Arab lands lie at the heart of an arc of crisis from Marrakech to Bangladesh. Autocracies, often dynastic, remain the principal form of government; economies are stagnant; violence is a common way of resolving political debate. Last summer the U.N. Development Programme commissioned a panel of regional experts to write an Arab Human Development Report. It was perhaps the most important volume published in 2002. "The wave of democracy that transformed governance in most of Latin America and East Asia in the 1980s and Eastern Europe and much of Central Asia in the late 1980s...
...woes. She is an energetic political figure who is not afraid to stand up against a popular Republican administration and tell them why they’re wrong. A minority leader should not be a moderate consensus builder like Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) often was. With a stagnant economy and the possibility of war looming, the Democrats need to define their agenda and keep the administration in check...
...trouble in a tiny package?specifically, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, whose bite is the main way the virus can spread. Aedes aegypti are right at home in tropical cities rife with stagnant water and human targets. "Once a dengue epidemic is under way, it's very difficult to stop it," says Dr. Ray Arthur, a virologist for the who. No vaccine exists...
...line, dengue prevention comes down to mosquito prevention. "If you control the mosquito, you control the spread," says Arthur. Unlike the malarial mosquito and vampires, the Aedes aegypti only bites during the day. Keep your home free of potential mosquito-breeding grounds by clearing out any stagnant-water containers such as used tires. Once confined to the tropics, dengue looks to be spreading to new areas in Asia, as the recent Hong Kong outbreak shows. The best we can do is not put out the welcome...