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...cooking materials. Once again, poorer countries are hit harder, with a rate 11 times higher than that of higher-income countries. In wealthier parts of the world, it's smoke inhalation, not the flames themselves, that causes the most deaths. For reasons not entirely clear, burns are the only type of injury that strike more girls than boys. Smoke alarms, childproof lighters and the establishment of dedicated burn centers are among the WHO's prescriptions...
...along with their departmental electives. Under the new proposal students are freed from these rigid requirements. Instead, non-honors concentrators would be expected to take one course from each of the four “common-ground modules” outlined in the proposal and seven electives.This type of revamped program of study is a crucial step toward keeping the humanities relevant and alluring to undergraduates. As higher education becomes more and more specialized and the job market becomes increasingly competitive, the temptation to concentrate in a subject with “real-world” applicability is strong...
...does the intellect assured by an Ivy League diploma grant its bearer a sufficient title to rule? Is political virtue equivalent to the type of knowledge and intellectual agility required for success at places like Harvard? The point, pace the politically ambitious set at Harvard, remains far from certain...
...shot is the only vaccination that is continually updated, because influenza is a rare type of virus that is constantly changing. There are three types of the flu - Influenza A, B and C - each one with its own viral strain that replicates and changes independently from the other types. Seasonal strains of human influenza change constantly, which is why people can catch the flu multiple times. (See the Year in Health, from...
...leading to the culling and destruction of millions of possibly-infected fowl. By 2003, the strain had spread to much of Asia's bird population. "It remains a serious pandemic threat," says Bridges. "It has a 100% mortality rate among poultry, but so far we are not seeing the type of molecular changes required to jump to humans...