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...before the turn of the century, Heiser helped establish immigration health standards that are still in use today. Later, as chief quarantine officer and director of health in the Philippines, he exercised nearly dictatorial powers for a dozen years in the fight against bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, beriberi and malaria. He was credited with reducing the death toll in the islands by 100,000 a year. As an emissary of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled to disease-ridden corners of the world, campaigning for modern sanitation and good diet. His 1936 memoirs. An American Doctor's Odyssey, became...
Like a bad penny or a case of malaria, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities keeps coming back. For the past two years, the overwhelming majority of the students of Harvard and Radcliffe have tried every method from voting to massive disruptive demonstrations to make it clear to the Faculty and the Administration that they want no part of the CRR or the Resolution which spawned it. And for two years, the Faculty and Administration have ignored these indications and clung to the hope that, if only the correct technical formula can be found, the student body can be induced...
...knifing him in the groin over a game of tennis and was banished from Rome. There ensued four bizarre years of flight and intermittent patron age, as Caravaggio blundered in and out of scrapes in Naples. Malta and Sicily, executing masterpieces on the run. In 1610 he died of malaria in the fishing village of Porto Ercole. while trying to sneak back into Rome. He was 36 years old. His public career, with all its ruinous vicissitudes, had lasted less than 20 years. But he had produced some of the most influential paintings in Europe...
PESTICIDE ABUSE. Instead of advocating a ban on all pesticides, E.D.F. approves limited spraying of some farm poisons, plus full deployment of the pest's natural enemies. E.D.F. scientists do not oppose using DDT abroad in areas where the clear and present danger of malaria overrides all other considerations. But they do oppose it in the U.S., where malaria is not a problem and DDT's secondary effects are well documented. To block DDT, the group brought actions against the Health, Education and Welfare and Agriculture departments. The court passed the complaint to the federal Environmental Protection Agency...
Coral and Malaria. Of course, Europe had long been crisscrossed by wandering medieval craftsmen like Wiligelmo and Gislebertus. But Dürer seems to have been the first great artist to act on the idea that response to different cultures is part of the creative process itself. His appetite for curios and marvels was enormous, and it filled his baggage with every imaginable sort of junk. Dürer once impetuously swapped a whole portfolio of engravings and woodcuts for "five snail shells, four silver and five copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral...