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...decades doctors have been battling the parasitic disease with the few available drugs, usually arsenic compounds. At the same time, local and international agencies have waged campaigns to eradicate tsetse flies, the bloodsucking insects that transmit the ailment to domestic cattle and man. Neither approach has been particularly successful. Trypanosomiasis still casts its shadow over 35 million people who live in the heart of tropical Africa, the tsetse fly's breeding ground, making huge areas all but uninhabitable...
...despairing word last week from David Minton, the executive director of a blue-ribbon commission that Congress set up last year to determine what, if anything, could be done to increase the efficiency of the U.S. Postal Service and reduce the burden it places on taxpayers. The commission will transmit its findings to Congress this week. Key recommendation...
Dual Role. Press, who plans to spend what spare time he finds in his new role reading about earthquake forecasting, also managed to transmit his love of science and teaching to his children. His daughter Paula is a teacher and is married to a graduate student of public health; his son William is a professor of astronomy at Harvard...
...afternoon in Peking, Witke was whisked to the Great Hall of the People for dinner with Chiang Ch'ing, then at the height of her power. Presumably at that meeting, Chiang Ch'ing decided that Witke would be a suitable person to transmit her story to the outside world. Some two weeks later, while Witke was touring Shanghai, she was told excitedly by one of her guides: "Comrade Chiang Ch'ing has made a secret flight to Canton, where she is reflecting on her life and the revolution." Witke was flown by special jet to that southern...
...these lessons, painful and ineradicable, that Emerson tries to transmit in Winners and Losers. Her approach is typical of a reporter: she spent years interviewing dozens of Vietnam veterans and their families, dozens of antiwar workers, members of the foreign policy establishment that supported the war, and as many Vietnamese as she could. Her book has been criticized bacause the majority of the people she describes are American, but Emerson explains early on that she, like so many other foreign correspondents, found it difficult to contact North Vietnamese or South Vietnamese freedom fighters. And since the liberation of Saigon, very...