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...used legal contacts to get in touch with underworld figures for research. But it is the character behind the fa?ade that Neill articulates best. In one of the film's most poignant scenes, the Jockey, who is estranged from his wife and secretly gay, thanks his henchman for his "trust and discretion." Here it is as if Neill is conspiring directly with the audience. "Every sleaze is also a human being," says the actor. "I look for the humanity and maybe even a humorous dimension to the people I play...
...more than 400 years, the world has largely relied on quinine to combat malaria, especially the most severe cases, which kill up to 2.7 million people a year. But a study by the medical-research charity Wellcome Trust published in the Lancet last Friday showed that an injectable version of the drug artesunate?one of a range of medicines derived from sweet wormwood, a traditional Chinese herb?can reduce the chances of death from severe malaria by 35% compared to quinine. The results were so striking that the study is likely to alter the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations...
...Bangkok, who led the study. "[Artesunate] reduces the traffic jam, which is what kills people." The study's results still need to be replicated in African children, by far the worst victims of the disease; it's possible they will react differently than the subjects in the Wellcome Trust trials, which took place in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Burma. In addition, the Chinese companies that manufacture the injectable version of the drug haven't yet received full approval from the WHO. When they do, the world will have a formidable weapon against an ages-old scourge...
...Cooper's Testimony Time correspondent Matthew Cooper's account of what he told the grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of CIA officer Plame [July 25] increased my level of trust in journalists several notches above its usual place?that is, below that of used-car salesmen. Cooper admitted that he couldn't make perfect sense of some of his notes, didn't have infallible recall and didn't know all the legal ramifications of everything that happened. He actually seems to think that he can be a little like the rest of us and still...
These days Sunni and Shi'ite friends still sometimes sit together in the cafés, but the carefree ways of the past are gone. "Beneath our smiles, our hearts have closed," says a former army officer, a Sunni. "We no longer trust them, nor do they trust us." Residents believe the killers come from outside Washash, but they know there are informers within. Armed Shi'ite vigilantes patrol the streets, questioning strangers. Because Shi'ites are in the majority in Washash, the Sunnis tend to suffer more. Twenty-five Sunni men disappeared into police custody on Aug. 12, according...