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...strikes first is always hit the hardest," claims Dr. Baldur Schubert, head of Brazil's National Commission for the Prevention of Cholera. "We've had time to prepare for the disease." The Brazilian government has distributed 450,000 illustrated pamphlets on the Amazon border to teach people how to combat cholera by boiling drinking water and washing one's hands after defecating. Authorities have also allocated $6 million to build public toilets in the area. In Colombia the folk troupe Los Natales is performing a modified version of traditional dances to teach sanitary habits...
...years, "people have been disillusioned with African American organizations," and that has made it difficult for Black student groups to attract and keep the commitment of Blacks at Harvard. The Word, which has previously existed as a sporadically published organization newsletter, is being revived as a magazine to combat this disenchantment, Rowe said...
...that came just in time. After a long honeymoon with the American people, the President's baffling flip-flops on taxes and a gathering recession caused his approval rating to fall to a so-so 53% by last autumn. The buildup to war followed by the breathtaking weeks of combat made Americans forget all that. Soon after Kuwait was liberated in February, Bush's popularity rocketed to an unprecedented 86%. Democrats could only gape in awe at his upward trajectory...
...drug that once shattered thousands of lives now offer hope to thousands of others? Pregnant women in the 1950s took thalidomide to combat morning sickness. When some 12,000 gave birth to tragically deformed children, the doomed drug was abruptly withdrawn. Now it is making a quiet comeback. Andrulis Pharmaceuticals of Beltsville, Md., and Pediatric Pharmaceuticals of Westfield, N.J., have asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve thalidomide for experimental use. Andrulis wants it for a clinical study of patients with bone-marrow transplants. By suppressing the immune response, thalidomide may prevent the new marrow from attacking the body...
...government announced a campaign in May 1990 to combat rising crime. Hundreds of thousands of arrests and nearly 1000 executions were reported by year...