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From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects, specifically to help forward her Africa interests, she chose Harvard—where she is now an African and African American Studies concentrator pursuing a secondary in Chemistry...
...estimates are also less alarming than those provided - also by Lipsitch - to the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology last summer near the start of the pandemic. At the time, researchers had only patchy data on the number of people infected by, and seeking treatment for, the new flu. The initially bleak prediction of the impact of H1N1 - with up to 50% of the U.S. population becoming infected in the fall and winter of 2009, resulting in as many as 90,000 deaths - was based on modeling of previous pandemics. (See how not to get the H1N1...
Fortunately, the worst case scenario did not come to pass. "The worst case consistent with the data we have now is a lot milder than the worst case consistent with the data we had in the summer or spring," Lipsitch says...
...Saturday (as they do several days every week). Maybe HUDS isn’t intentionally showing support by providing us with the related food items. But that shouldn’t stop you from justifying that extra dollop of cream cheese and that additional piece of satisfyingly stringy spring summer squash. It certainly won’t stop...
These accomplishments provide a foundation for what could be a new American approach. Last summer, Fayyad announced that - instead of waiting for political negotiations to reach a final agreement on a Palestinian state - he would simply work to build the institutions of such a state right away. His aim was to create conditions that within two years would convince the world, including the Israelis, that the entity should be granted statehood. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a similar approach. He wants to provide both sides with security by building the Palestinian economy, and he has lifted some...