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...That needs to change. Most cases of diarrhea can be traced to food or water tainted by 100 or so intestinal bugs, most commonly rotavirus, E. coli, shigella, campylobacter and salmonella. Thumb sucking doesn't help; it can lead to what doctors call fecal-oral contamination. "Toddlers will always pick up things and put them into their mouths and, if you don't have a clean environment, that can lead to diarrhea," says Therese Dooley, until recently a unicef project officer in Ethiopia. Infection triggers a cascade of events that can cause diarrhea, if left untreated, to escalate from...
...standing in a Napa Valley, Calif. field early on a Friday morning with 24 yuppies who paid $875 to pick grapes. A dozen Mexican day laborers, who have been working since 4 a.m. filling buckets for $2 each, pause to let us take over their jobs. "They think, Gringos loco," explains our camp counselor, Wayne Ryan...
...danger we're seeing at the moment is that people are zeroing in on only a few subjects, whereas if you pick up a good general newspaper, you read a lot of things you don't expect to read, much of which are important, and make life more interesting...
...arrived at the government center in a small town to kidnap the mayor, since they have a problem with any form of government that does not include regular beheadings and women wearing burqahs. There were seven of them. As they brought the mayor out to put him in a pick-up truck to take him off to be beheaded (on video, as usual), one of the Bad Guys put down his machine gun so that he could tie the mayor's hands. The mayor took the opportunity to pick up the machine gun and drill five of the Bad Guys...
...been named to lead the investigation, though Louis Freeh, the former FBI director, was Hastert's potential pick. Before Thursday's press conference, Hastert called House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to say that he was planning to name Freeh. Pelosi objected, telling Hastert, "We need to talk about this and we need to work in a bipartisan way," according to her press secretary, Brendan Daly. Hastert subsequently did not name Freeh at his press conference...