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Whereas the Palestinians want to win their right to a "foothold" within modern Israel (situated in once ancient Israel) through the use of terror, violence and destruction, the returning Jews have earned it through their patient work, building and developing neglected, desolate, malaria-infested land that nobody wanted 100 years...
...speeches from the balcony at the Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. He followed up his pledges of social change with real reforms: the establishment of a social security system, construction of low-cost housing, wage hikes and the lengthening of workers' vacations, public health programs against tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy, and the encouragement of collective bargaining...
...occurred to me what I was really making no progress at all," he says. "The same type of people from the same village communities along the river would come with diarrhea, with infections, with malaria--the whole range...
...play with tops. Their parents, Rubin says, treat them as adult reincarnations of adults. (Rhade tribesmen are supposed to love children so much that they used to buy Vietnamese children to raise as their own; but almost 70 per cent of their children die before their first birthday--of malaria, intestinal parasites, and skin diseases caused by poor sanitation...
Such scientific sleuthing is routine for the CDC, which is to communicable disease what the FBI is to crime. Since it was established in 1946 as an outgrowth of a World War II agency set up to control malaria, the CDC has tracked down the sources of typhoid epidemics, traced a hepatitis outbreak in Michigan to a single bakery worker, and hunted down untold thousands of venereal-disease victims in need of treatment. Its efforts are essential, since infectious diseases remain one of the country's most troublesome health hazards. This year alone, they are expected to account...