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Much progress has been made in controlling the disease—it was eradicated from the U.S. shortly after World War II. But three major factors, according to microbiologist Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, have hindered eradication efforts in many regions: drug-resistant parasites, pesticide-resistant mosquitoes, and the lack of a malaria vaccine...
...Jacobs-Lorena and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University have taken a different approach to combating malaria. They have engineered a mosquito that produces an extra protein in its gut, which blocks the malarial parasite from infecting it. The team recently discovered unexpectedly that one of their engineered mosquito strains is “fitter” than ordinary mosquitoes. Once you infect it with a certain strain of mouse-borne malaria parasite, it lives longer and produces more offspring than infected wild-type mosquitoes. Place equal numbers of the two types of mosquitoes into the same cage...
...trade with Cuba,” says the Web site for the Office of International Programs (OIP). Study in Cuba has recently become more difficult because of new regulations that make it trickier for Harvard to obtain licenses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The new rules, says Lorena G. Barberia, an OIP program associate, “mean substantially less licenses.” In 2003, Barberia says, the U.S. government issued 181 licenses for study programs nationwide; in 2005, they offered fewer than 70. Harvard’s new program features a rigorous application process...
...what time.” Even now that Harvard has a license, Cuba-bound undergraduates must participate in a formal 10-week or longer academic program that counts for College credit, according to the DRCLAS program associate who manages the center’s Cuban Studies arm, Lorena Barberia. The ban on trade with Cuba makes for several unusual travel rules in addition to of the required letter-of-license. When returning home, students will be permitted to carry only $100 worth of merchandise, for which they must have receipts, according to the OIP. The OIP instructs students...
...Lorena Feijo, 35, San Francisco Ballet. Feijo doesn't so much dance her roles as attack them with a torrid, all-out intensity, yet she never loses precision and control. Her fiery virtuosity blazes in such ballets as Giselle and Don Quixote. Unlike Carreo, she left Cuba over the objections of Alonso, who still rules the National Ballet (see box). As a result, Feijo has not been welcomed back, despite her requests. Alonso, she says, "has never said no, but she has never answered. I never lose the hope...