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...results of even the most aggressive efforts may be mixed. Mobile mammography units have taken to the field in South Africa to improve that country's woeful rate of detection and treatment. But when a suspicious mass is found, timely follow-up visits are difficult for the mammography teams, so it is left to the woman to visit a hospital. Often she won't. "If you live 60 km from a clinic and you feel a lump and it's painless," asks Dr. Aaron Ndhluni, a private breast surgeon in Cape Town, "are you going to walk...
...course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th in Asia - 13 spots below Bahrain, whose population is less than one-thousandth of India...
Someday, historians will find in the saga of New Orleans a 21st century morality tale about wealth and poverty, black and white, man and nature. We chose to focus on the woeful lack of preparedness for the future as a symbol of the same dearth of responsibility that gave us Katrina in the first place. Our special report is built around a powerful cover story written and reported by senior correspondent Michael Grunwald, who has been obsessed with New Orleans since Katrina. Michael, who is the author of The Swamp, a well-received book on the Everglades, explores...
...campus in which many students complain of a woeful dearth of sexual activity, there is an increasingly vocal population of students choosing to opt out of what they call Harvard’s hook-up culture. Over 100 of these abstinent students make up the student group, True Love Revolution (TRL), which has garnered campus and national media attention, not all of it positive, for its mission of abstinence...
...started this free after-work program to teach reading, arithmetic and elementary science in 2005 after officials noticed an unusually high number of accidents occurring on the shop floor because laborers could not read warning signs. More than just the workers' safety and Petrobras' productivity is at stake. The woeful state of education in Brazil, the world's fifth largest country, is compromising productivity and competitiveness and acting as a brake on the country's development, according to economists, businesspeople and educators. With the economies of China and India surging ahead, thanks in part to their large pools of educated...