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...have a major impact on a child's health," says Unicef's Dooley. Simple remedies such as oral rehydration and pit latrines don't make the world's headlines. Yet recurrent bouts of diarrhea not only disrupt a child's schooling, but also retard physical development as vital nutrients are continually flushed out of the body. One ray of hope: preliminary studies suggest that zinc supplements protect the intestine's lining and significantly reduce the duration of diarrhea episodes as well as the risk of recurrence. At ICDDR's field research center southeast of Dhaka, children who were given...
...born-again" conversion. There is the faith that treats the Bible as a moral fable as well as history and tries to live its truths in the light of contemporary knowledge, history, science and insight. There is a faith that draws important distinctions between core beliefs and less vital ones--that picks and chooses between doctrines under the guidance of individual conscience...
Civic involvement is always a vital duty, but this year campaigns are of particular importance. Although this is not a presidential election year, the stakes in national politics are almost as high as they were in 2004. The election will broadly impact our nation’s future, shaping everything from environmental policy to tax policy, from foreign relations to social welfare programs. Pollsters are predicting that there are enough races that are too close to call that one or both houses of Congress could change hands...
...Estonia an unalloyed financial and technological utopia? Not quite. Oddly, the country's economic coherence of the past 15 years has gone hand-in-hand with political fractiousness. There have been 12 governments since 1991, and increasingly there's a polarization between those who insist it's vital for Estonia to stick to its current successful model and those who argue it's time for serious tinkering. The tax system, widely seen as a cornerstone of Estonia's success to date, faces the biggest threat. A 26% flat income tax was introduced in 1994. The rate has since dropped...
...time in the future, when readers use any book that was previously used by Mr. Smiley, those individuals must always wonder if their observations and conclusions will be rendered invalid because his actions removed, and thus disguised, vital evidence,” HCL’s top librarian, Nancy M. Cline, wrote in her impact statement...