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...brought to get better. Locals say this hospital in the town of Matany is the only good one for perhaps 100 miles: no doubt that's one reason why the therapeutic feeding center, as the malnutrition program is called, houses 33 young patients in its one room with eight cots. Inside, a handful of mothers sit and feed the children who are too weak to play, or even...
...average, it takes about 28 days before children become healthy enough to go home. Santina has already been here eight weeks; the rest of her family has been left at home with Santina's husband. But he's out all day herding the family cattle and goats, so domestic duties fall to the eldest daughter, who's only 12. Santina lives close enough to the hospital that she can do some casual labor in Matany during the day, then take the money she earns home for her young children. Most women, however, live too far from the hospital, and some...
...spacecraft now has about three months to study the Martian north pole before -200 F winter temperatures hit the region and threaten to freeze the instruments. But Phoenix is designed with a longer, six-to-eight-month stay in mind, so hopes are high that the probe will not only find frozen water but will also serve as a precursor to later missions seeking evidence of microscopic organic life. Which means that NASA, like Frosty, will probably be back again someday...
...approval as part of the new “Ethical Reasoning” course category. The once-empty “Science of the Physical Universe” category now contains one class: Science A-49: “The Physics of Music and Sound.” All eight Gen Ed categories now contain at least one course. “The pace of approval is picking up because most professors have adapted their proposals to the committee’s first round of comments and resubmitted them,” Gen Ed committee member John M. Sheffield...
...hard-line Cuban-Americans occupying them. But this week the Cook Report, a Beltway guide to state and local elections, changed its "rating" on Florida's 21st congressional district from "solidly Republican" to "likely Republican" - a sign that Democratic challenger Raul Martinez is a genuine threat to eight-term Republican incumbent Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Martinez, in fact, has so far been able to match Diaz-Balart in fund raising - and new reports that Democratic voter registration growth is significantly outstripping that of Republicans in Miami bodes ill for the G.O.P. in the 18th and 25th districts as well...