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...Portugal and Spain expanded rapidly only after malaria was eradicated in those countries in the 1950s. In other words, fighting malaria is good for business--as many companies with overseas operations have long understood. By the end of this year, Exxon Mobil, which plans to expand activities in the sub-Saharan countries of Chad, Cameroon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria, hopes to triple its funding for antimalaria projects and research, from $2 million to $6 million. But the malaria problem is bigger than Exxon Mobil or even Bill and Melinda Gates. Government action is needed...
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have suffered the brunt of this renewed assault, but nations in temperate zones, including the U.S., are not immune. A malaria outbreak in Florida last summer that hospitalized seven people was the first extended case of local transmission on U.S. soil in nearly 20 years. The cause was almost certainly a parasite that hopped a ride in a human or a mosquito on an international flight or ocean vessel, since none of the patients had recently ventured overseas...
...despite the offputting start, the resulting less-than-ideal race conditions and the caliber of her opponents, Shoemaker ensured that the journey was not in vain, turning in a solid showing across all three sub-events...
...while the defending ECAC champion squad he inherits is far stronger than the sub-.500 club Poulin took on—making a similarly poor start very unlikely—Donato will have at least one prominent alum to turn to for advice: his former coach, Bill Cleary...
...it’s not as if there hasn’t been plenty to cheer about for the Crimson in recent years. Harvard fans haven’t had to endure five straight sub-.500 campaigns, as during the period stretching across Ronn Tomassoni’s final four seasons and Mark Mazzoleni’s first. They haven’t had to endure several-year periods without ECAC crowns and trips to the NCAA tournament. And they sure haven’t had to endure stretches as long as their Red Sox counterparts in between titles...