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...treatment sounds harsh, but the findings confirm what many pediatric dermatologists have seen anecdotally for years. The theory is that the antimicrobial properties of bleach help relieve symptoms of eczema not by acting directly on that skin condition, but by improving children's skin infections of staph bacteria - a common co-occurrence that exacerbates the irritating symptoms of eczema...
...regulations against industrial pollution (plus policies that ensure dirty water is employed for nonvital uses like landscaping) and more efficient agricultural practices, such as drip irrigation, that would cut down on the enormous amount of water wasted in farming. More rational pricing of water, even in poor nations, can help reduce misuse on the farms and in the cities...
...hope is that, properly managed, water could actually help knit Asia together. More than any other resource, water must be shared. Rivers don't respect borders, and those downstream are dependent on the good behavior of those upstream - as the residents of Khabarovsk learned in 2005. Asian nations will need to come together on water - or they'll go thirsty alone...
...solids and put it back on," says Goldblum. Not having enough diapers, she realized, has far-reaching effects. "Most day-care centers require parents to provide their own," she says. And without day care, parents can't look for work or go to school. Cloth diapers don't help, because low-income families tend not to have washing machines or cars to get to the Laundromat. Moreover, she knew that babies who sit longer in their own waste get more diaper rashes and cry more. And she'd read the studies showing that more crying leads to more physical abuse...
...happy that I could in some ways instigate the conversation. People who may not have considered the issue before considered it. But I think it was a train that was rolling along on its own. It didn't need a lot of help from...