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Most of the tiny patients confined to the children's ward at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, are weak, malnourished and dehydrated. They've suffered attack after attack of diarrhea and, in some cases, are clinging to life. Five-month-old Sohag, who is lying on green plastic sheeting in a bed four times her size, had suffered[an error occurred while processing this directive] diarrhea for seven days before she was admitted. Her weight had dropped to 2.75 kg, just over one-third of that expected for her age, and she now seems...
...Bangladesh both are so widespread that not even middle-class children can escape their self-perpetuating cycle. "If you have a child that is malnourished and who then loses more weight through diarrhea, and tries to make it up, but never makes it up because he is weak and has another episode of diarrhea, then it doesn't matter how well-off the parents are," he says. "That is a child who is on the road to death." ICDDR spends $20 million a year treating up to 150,000 patients, its budget financed mostly by grants from the government, international...
...Rice has promised that sanctions will be lifted and funds will flow back to the Palestinians once the Israeli corporal is freed and the President dissolves the Hamas government. But Abbas, despite being the Bush Administration's favorite, could end up the loser. Many Palestinians see him as weak and fickle. Hamas' gunmen are more numerous and better disciplined than Abbas' Fatah fighters, who have splintered into rival militias whose main activity in Gaza these days is stealing cars and kidnapping. "Our image in the streets is very bad," concedes a senior Fatah official. "We are seen as self-interested...
...latter against this weak opposition. Is there a more difficult to say short school name than Iona? That’s three syllables in four letters! And the Gaels? More like the Gails, if you know what I mean. Singer/songwriter Don McLean, author of the plaintive classic “American Pie,” is the college’s most famous alum...
...Wilner: Luce loved Hadden. They had an amazing friendship. Even while he was betraying Hadden for 38 years, Luce felt fondly towards him. But at the same time, I think Luce was intensely jealous of Hadden, and because Luce had a weak ego and an extremely well-developed sense of competitive instinct, he always wondered what Hadden had thought of him and he felt uneasy, that maybe Hadden didn't respect Luce as much as he should have. And he felt dwarfed by Hadden. It's very difficult to feel that way towards someone who has passed away...