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...return the next day. In a small miracle, when they returned after another six-mile trek, the quinine had come in, and the child responded to treatment and survived. It was a close call though. More than 1 million African children, and perhaps as many as 3 million, succumb to malaria each year...
Congressional Democrats are on the warpath. In November 2004, they saw five Democratic house seats in Texas succumb to Republican challenges as a result of mid-decade redistricting. With the Georgia Republican Party planning to repeat the Texas gambit, Democrats are anxious to return fire with mid-decade redistricting efforts in Illinois, Louisiana, and New Mexico, according to a recent report by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. While we understand the Democrats’ frustration, the long-term answer to efforts such as those that occurred in Texas is not retaliation, but reform...
...faced with a prognosis like Williams', many people would succumb to depression. Others might escape by indulging in pleasure--traveling around the world or moving to a cabin in the woods. Many would simply concentrate on fighting the disease. Yet those who dedicate themselves to fulfilling a dream or final project may thrive best of all. "Often you see people outlive their prognosis when they pursue a mission," says Elise NeeDell Babcock, author of When Life Becomes Precious: The Essential Guide for Patients, Loved Ones and Friends of Those Facing Serious Illnesses. "They're focused, and they often take better...
...Douthat’s critique proves more valuable is in his discussion of the problems with Harvard’s current academic structure: there are major flaws in the current Core Curriculum, the academic advising system, and even the apathy of some professors and teaching fellows. But these descriptions succumb to an inherent bias. Douthat blasts the humanities for inflating grades—he argues that it’s a reaction to their “retreat into irrelevance”—and neglecting to prepare those students who are not headed for professorships of their...
...only exacerbated by the under-diagnosis evident in the male population and the feminization of these health concerns. At the hands of cruel irony, it is the men most likely concerned with the “masculine” routine of weight lifting and anabolic steroid popping who frequently succumb to distorted bodily perceptions most often associated with female anorexic or bulimic patient...