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...Whether that's good business remains to be seen: No sooner were the shows announced in May than never-seen-it-before "Survivor" became the biggest hit of the year. For viewers, the retro slate's generally bad news, but there's some hope. Herewith, a 21st-century premiere-week survival guide...
...less than 1% when IV fluids were administered to the most severely ill. Still, skepticism about the effectiveness of oral rehydration continued. Several journals refused to publish Mahalanabis' paper about the outbreak. But Dhiman Barua, then head of WHO's bacterial diseases unit in Geneva, Switzerland and a survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies. who rolled out its diarrheal-diseases control program in 1978. "The simplicity and power of this tool gave...
...Lopez's fellow sufferers, there was no doubt about the identity of his abductors: "This is the work of right-wing fascists in conjunction with members of the security forces sympathetic to their cause," says Adriana Calvo, a survivor of the dictatorship's detention centers and also a witness in the Etchecolatz case...
...McCarthy is the last survivor of a vanished world. He is, essentially, a modernist, miraculously preserved like a literary coelacanth from the age of Hemingway and Faulkner, writers of high style and high purpose without an iota of aw-shucks relatability. The future probably belongs to the Fraziers, the entertainers, who serve up their profundities with humor and sex and fisticuffs so they go down more easily. McCarthy would never stoop to entertain us, but there's a stripped-down intensity to his work that is just awesome. You sense that The Road, with its world empty of values...
...editors: Charles Drummond’s column “Primetime Segregation” (Sept. 27) troubled me deeply. Although he is completely correct about the ludicrousness of the new “Survivor: Cook Islands” television show, I feel it was in horrible taste for him to nonchalantly compare an amped-up version of the show to the South. Articles such as this that paint the South as continuing to be a bastion for intolerance and racism in The Crimson make life significantly more difficult for Southerners on campus. How many times have you been asked...