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...been dramatic. Zinc pills appear to halt diarrhea in its tracks. In Sogola, the packets of tablets provided by Save the Children are kept in a rickety but locked wooden closet in a mud building--the closest thing the town has to a pharmacy. There, Moussa Traoré, 48--a thin, wan man--dispenses drugs with a studied seriousness. Since last year, he has prescribed 20 mg of zinc daily for about two weeks to children suffering from diarrhea. Throw in oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which has been the main weapon against diarrhea for the past few decades, and a treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Miracle Mineral | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...imprudent to reveal the amount of time I have spent using this interactive feature, which allows you to upload a photo of yourself and test out a range of celebrity haircuts. The name is slightly misleading because you also have the power to do many other crazy things like thin your eyebrows by infinitesimal degrees, preview colored contact lenses, and sample hundreds of different cosmetics, each of which corresponds to a real-life product with the price and purchasing information right there on the page. What started as a serious endeavor to see what I’d look like...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, Jeffrey W. Feldman, Ama R. Francis, Jessica R. Henderson, Joshua J. Kearney, Eunice Y. Kim, Chris R. Kingston, Ali R. Leskowitz, Beryl C.D. Lipton, Monica S. Liu, Ryan J. Meehan, Antonia M.R. Peacocke, Erika P. Pierson, Bram A. Strochlic, Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, and Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Editor's Picks 2009 | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...international teams also provided the ultra-thin layers of semiconductor materials, Yu added...

Author: By Damilare K Sonoiki, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SEAS Lab Creates Multibeam Laser | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...Diplomatic efforts to free the five men will certainly be complicated by the diminished goodwill between London and Tehran, which has been stretched thin in recent months amid conflict over Iran's nuclear ambitions and disputed presidential election. With Britain often the preferred whipping boy of the Tehran regime's denunciation of alleged Western conspiracies against it, the yachtsmen's capture, made public on Nov. 30, could hardly have come at a worse time. Desperate to play down the incident and avoid a diplomatic row, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was looking forward to the matter "being promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Captives in Iran Face Uncertain Fate | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Having taken long flights the day before, both Harvard and the Privateers (3-2) struggled early on to find a rhythm and adjust to the thin Boulder...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Splits Pair of Close Games in Tourney | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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