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...Last Mughal may be set a century and a half ago, but it revolves around a contemporary theme: the clash of civilizations. The spirit of evangelical Christianity had begun to infect the Englishmen in India in the 1850s. Many believed that they had been granted the Empire in order to convert Hindus and Muslims to the "true faith." On the other side, a growing number of India's Muslims were turning to a more orthodox form of Islam and dreaming of declaring jihad against the British. In May 1857, thousands of sepoys (Indian soldiers) serving in the British army mutinied...
...heart of the matter. For years, giving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to children living with AIDS in the poorest parts of the world was perceived as a lost cause. It's hard enough, the experts thought, to get ARVs to pregnant, HIV-positive women to reduce the chances they will infect their babies in utero or at birth. Pediatric versions of the drugs are expensive, and cutting down an adult dose of the medication to give it to a child is tricky. Without treatment, however, nearly a third of HIV-positive infants die by their first birthday, and half...
...into the machine rogue programs that allowed them to redistribute votes that had already been cast. In one instance, the testers had to take the machine apart with a screwdriver--an act likely to draw the attention of poll workers. But in two others, they were able to quickly infect the device with a standard memory-access card in which they had installed a preprogrammed chip. Other computer scientists have also breached electronic voting machines. Congressman Vernon Ehlers, a Michigan Republican who has been holding hearings this fall, says manufacturers "have produced machines that are very vulnerable, not very reliable...
What Causes Diarrhea Viruses, bacteria or parasites infect the digestive tract through food or water tainted by feces. They attack the small intestine, causing it to malfunction and disgorge its contents in watery (or bloody) stools. The fluid loss leads to dehydration, marked by dizziness, dry or sticky[an error occurred while processing this directive] mouth, less and darker urine, sunken eyes and weight loss. Severe dehydration can lead to shock, kidney failure and death. Rehydration Oral rehydration solution (ORS) can reverse most cases of dehydration if given quickly. It can be made from one teaspoon of salt and eight...
...health, including the tremendous numbers of potential lives saved, makes opposition to the vaccine all the more troubling. Certain conservative religious groups’ have attacked the ACIP’s recommendations not on the grounds that the vaccine is unsafe—the vaccine cannot infect a person with HPV, and side-effects are minor—but rather because of fear that giving the vaccine to all girls will lead to an increase in sexual activity. Such an argument not only ignores the fact that women can contract HPV through non-consensual sex, but also reflects a dangerously...