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Describing the nation as a “pigmentocracy” where the “color of your skin is used as a guide to treat you,” Dyson cited racial profiling as indicative of current race relations...
...Other tasks fall mostly to the women - Hand, Price and Ph.D. student Karen Roberts, whose father is a high-school geology teacher. Between them, they brush rocks, sort and label them, and treat fossils with a preservative. Everyone lugs rock-filled hessian bags to a pick-up point, from where they're eventually trucked to laboratories in Sydney and at Mount Isa's Riversleigh Fossil Centre. There, resident palaeontologist John Scanlon frees the bones by dissolving the surrounding limestone in dilute acetic acid. Since the vats were installed earlier this year, "I've just been hooked," says Scanlon...
...decades, the best treatment for malaria was an inexpensive medication called chloroquine, first discovered in Germany in 1934 by a researcher working for Bayer. Chloroquine was so effective that it seemed it might vanquish malaria forever. But by the 1970s, the drug had been used so widely to treat all kinds of fevers, not just those caused by malaria, that the malaria parasites became resistant and doctors had to turn to a second medication, called sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or SP. But within five years, the parasites started to develop resistance to SP as well. Today resistance to both drugs is rampant...
...successful, any antimalaria campaign must do two things: treat the illness and prevent the transmission of parasites. Several pilot studies conducted in Africa have proved that combination therapy, in which at least one of the medications is derived from a plant called Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, easily destroys drug-resistant malarial parasites in the bloodstream. Using several drugs at once, often in the same pill, greatly decreases the risk that the parasites will become resistant. As an added bonus, artemisinin, the active ingredient in Artemisia annua, acts very quickly, further decreasing the chances of drug resistance...
Author John Putzier has a bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another. In his new book, Weirdos in the Workplace, Putzier argues that even the quirkiest employees--from crazy Annie, who talks to her pets on the phone once a day, to annoying Lester, who pesters you to buy his daughter's Girl Scout cookies--have their merit. The book contains humorous real-life case studies that exemplify the growing phenomenon of "doing your own thing." After all, we live in an age of Fear Factor and Survivor...