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...Joel Charny, a former member of the CHC board. "Anne without Thim is a Harvard researcher without the connections to get things done." Today CHC is adapting its TB program for Cambodia's growing HIV problem and launching ambitious clinical trials, led by Goldfeld, that will study how to treat patients simultaneously suffering from both diseases. This is CHC at its best--harnessing grassroots programs to find answers to vital medical questions, which can then be used to help the very patients for whom CHC was originally founded...
...Farmer elaborates on in books that are surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care as the most basic human right and do whatever it takes to deliver...
...neighbor--who will handle the drugs and make sure they are taken on schedule. The patient is also given what the doctors hope will be enough food for a family of five. "You can't take these meds on an empty stomach," Farmer explains, "and you can't treat a wasting disease like AIDS or TB without calories." The extra rations are to avoid situations in which the sick have plenty to eat but their families starve...
...Bachchan's Triumph Alex Perry's article on Indian film superstar Amitabh Bachchan was a treat for all his fans [Oct. 3]. Although he is the face of Indian cinema to millions of people, Bachchan's entry into filmdom was not spectacular, as he made a series of flops before his first hit, Zanjeer. His perseverance and persistence paid off finally once his professionalism came to the fore. Even when the media were hell-bent on finishing off his career each time a movie bombed, he resurfaced and confounded his detractors. Most Indians admire Bachchan not just for his talent...
...epitomize the spirit of the holiday: [the] jack o’ lantern. During our Harvard run, we’ve experienced a different Halloween than the one we grew we grew up with. A Halloween more about the “trick” than the “treat.” Feeling cheapened by this “Shalloween” alternative, we braved the downpours of Saturday afternoon to recapture the substance of the holiday: that meaty, orange pulp found in the perfect pumpkin. With our friends Stollichnaya and Cheddar Ted, we hit up Boston Common...