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...Science Center reopened at 11:45 a.m. after two teams of fire fighters outfitted with hazardous material suits entered the building, identified the five-gallon spill, and closed a series of valves at the sub-basement level...
...Asia manages to keep its own rice bowl full, high prices and shortages may still filter down to the world's poorest countries. To put the problem in perspective, the Philippines, which faces the most acute rice shortage in Asia, imports just 15% of its rice; many countries in sub-Saharan Africa import up to 40%. Tight world supplies create a zero-sum calculus: Vietnamese rice going to the Philippines is rice that is unavailable for Africa - or for the NGOs that feed the world's most vulnerable populations. "A lot of people don't realize that Africa's rice...
Global inequalities in health are among the greatest injustices facing our generation. Seven of the 10 leading causes of death in sub-Saharan Africa are treatable illnesses that have been largely curtailed in the developed world. Additionally, many diseases in the developing world currently lack safe, affordable interventions. Two of the greatest challenges to resolving these inequalities—developing new treatments and ways of administering them—are problems which research universities are uniquely suited to address...
...Most developing countries also lack the capacity to administer effective care. Coverage rates of the vaccine for dipheria, tetanus, and pertussis—despite costing less than a dollar per dose and only having to be administered once—have stagnated at around 50 percent in sub-Saharan Africa since its introduction in the 1970s. Efforts to introduce more complex treatments, including AIDS treatment, encountered the same implementation bottlenecks: a lack of human resources, physical infrastructure, supply chain capacity and managerial oversight...
...That means readying societies to deal with heat waves - ensuring that the most vulnerable elderly aren't left on their own - and improving defenses against vector-borne diseases, with anti-malaria nets and medicines like artemisinin. Such preparations will be especially needed in those parts of the developing world - sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia - that will bear the brunt of climate change. But Patz would also like to see public health tackle carbon emissions directly, cutting off global warming at the source. For him, carbon dioxide should be treated as a pollutant that damages human health, albeit indirectly...