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Eliot enthusiasts burst into whoops as crowd favorite designer/model Maya E. Frommer ’07 sashayed down the runway clad in a business-meets-Tokyo-nights ensemble. “Maya only had one hour for each 24th of this dress,” quipped Kollmer. Weak laughter ensued...
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...
This bull market is now entering its fifth year--outlasting the typical bull. And there are some clear trouble spots developing. One is the weak housing market, which is shutting down the easy money from home-equity borrowing. Another is higher rates, which have begun to hit home owners where it really hurts. Some $2 trillion worth of adjustable-rate mortgages is scheduled to reset at a steeper rate by the end of 2008, estimates Moody's Economy.com A recession next year is not out of the question...