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...some malaria patients exhibit only mild flu-like symptoms, while others go into a coma and die? By examining malaria parasites taken straight from the blood of patients, researchers found three groups of the parasite, one of which was correlated with much more severe symptoms. Previous studies which examined the parasite in laboratory cultures had only found one group. The study, published yesterday in the online edition of the journal Nature, was the result of an international collaboration between researchers at institutions including the Broad Institute—a joint Harvard-MIT venture—and the Harvard School...
...weekend, Harvard students receive invitations to three “Parties for Microfinance,” one intimate violin concert, and two innovative re-imaginings of Greek tragedy featuring spray-paint and live garden spiders. Also, the Pan-Australian Dance Collective wants us to come to their Jamboree vs. Malaria. Harvard boasts nearly 400 organizations—somewhat above the Ivy League average: Yale has 249; Princeton “more than 200.” And all of these groups, I am willing to bet, have their own robust, bracketed e-mail lists. Big fish from small-to-moderate...
...Egger is not the only nonprofit leader using next year's early primaries to thrust his agenda into the national spotlight. Bill Gates, whose foundation is the world's largest philanthropy, last month called on presidential contenders to commit to expanding the President's Malaria Initiative, a $1.2 billion effort started by President Bush in 2005 to cut malaria deaths by 50% in 15 African nations. "I hope you will join us in asking all of the candidates to make this pledge and keep the fight against malaria on the national agenda," Gates wrote in an October 19 blog post...
...planeload, business hotels in Luanda are booked months in advance, and monthly rents in the business district are the highest in Africa, ranging from $54 to $108 per sq. ft. ($600 to $1,200 per sq m). Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people live in Luanda's slums, malaria and cholera are rife, and 70% of the population of 16 million subsist below the poverty line. Surveying the forest of cranes on Luanda's skyline, a foreign businessman describes the operating environment as opaque, corrupt and hamstrung by bureaucracy. "It's a nightmare," he says...
Take Kenya. The sub-Saharan nation ranks abysmally on many basic measures, such as favoritism in decisions of government officials (115th) and business impact of malaria (113th), but on some more sophisticated metrics it does quite well--eighth for legal rights tied to the financial markets and 31st for quality of scientific-research institutions. Skipping the basics while nailing the more complicated stuff is a counterintuitive yet increasingly widespread trend--think of the places in Africa that leaped from no phones to cell phones, bypassing landlines--but whether a country can excel in the long run without a more stable...