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...energetic Harvard started its Ivy League season impressively in the doubles. No. 2 duo Felton and Hayes secured an 8-2 win over the Lions’ Dan Urban and Rajeev Deb-Sen, followed closely by a win at No. 1 for Clayton and Chijoff-Evans over Bogdan Borta and Mihai Nichifor (8-6). No.3 Ermakov and Omodele-Lucien added gloss to the point with...
...developing countries, screening is not that common," says Dr. Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, lead author of the study and head of the screening group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer. There are small-scale cancer screening efforts underway primarily in urban areas throughout Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but they serve only a tiny slice of the population who would benefit, according to Sankaranarayanan. For example, "in India, less than one million pap smears are taken each year," he says, a fraction of the more than 200 million women who are at risk for developing cervical cancer...
...immigrant Northern League party "blessed," as they called it, a site reserved for a mosque in Padua by parading on it with a pig, an animal deemed unclean by Muslims. A 2004 Dutch opinion poll found that mosques, which in the 1990s had been lauded as "enrichments to the urban landscape," were now derided as "unimaginative," "ugly" and "cheap imitations...
...long after its political patron is gone. But PlaNYC is built to last, even during a recession, because it encompasses far more than just feel-good greenery. Agarwalla, who has studied why Philadelphia declined compared with New York in the 20th century, believes sustainability will be the key to urban success in the 21st century. "We didn't develop this plan out of a desire to be green," he says. "This is crucial for its economic and environmental future...
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban America By Beryl Satter Metropolitan Books; 495 pages...