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...philosophies of a people via translations and secondary works alone? Journalists, politicians, and high school teachers need only basic familiarity with their subjects; hence, interpreters, translations, and secondary works can adequately serve their purposes. But scholars, specialists in various field, and university teachers who wish to acquire and transmit knowledge and deeper insight into the nature of their subjects have no alternative but to master the languages relevant to their work. If anyone at Harvard every wishes to take up the study of any aspect of Africa seriously, he/she has no alternative but to start focussing on the study...
...reason for the workshop is that developments like the declining dependability of the post office, the rising cost of paper, and the falling cost of electronic communication influence the ways people decide to transmit information, and such changes pose threats and opportunities for newspapers, Oettinger said...
Nearly a century has passed since Louis Pasteur developed the first effective vaccine against rabies, but the dangerous viral disease still takes hundreds of lives round the world every year. The problem is especially serious in developing countries, where inoculations are not always quickly available and infected animals, who transmit the disease through bites, often run rampant. Yet even when bitten people are vaccinated in time, the treatment can be almost as bad as the disease. Typically, it involves a series of 14 or more shots (usually in the abdomen) that often cause painful allergic swelling and occasionally paralysis...
Infested bedding and undergarments can also transmit the parasite, Norins said...
TELEVISION. Cable TV companies, which now transmit commercial and public TV programs without paying for them, will have to pay a small fee likely to cost the whole industry about $10 million in the first year. Public TV will have to get permission to use a writer's work, and it will continue to pay a small fee for any work it does use-except plays, movies, operas and other dramatic works, which it must negotiate...