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...Weather isn't doing the job alone. As more and more people migrate to cities, they create additional opportunities for the mosquito to spread the virus. The problem is particularly acute in developing countries, where inadequate utilities mean residents must store water in jars and tanks - prime breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti. Increasing air travel is also a factor as infected fliers spread the disease quickly worldwide. "It's simplistic to suggest that the increasing outbreak is solely caused by climate change," says Simon Hales, a senior research fellow at New Zealand's University of Otago. "But those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vagabond Virus | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...looking to Sweeney Todd for Saw IV thrills. Besides, the R rating precludes the Disney audience. And have you checked out Broadway lately? I believe the "fogey" audience has become accustomed to situations that are more violent than the graveyard scene in The Sound of Music. The true problem with the upcoming version of Sweeney Todd is whether the principal players can do vocal justice to Stephen Sondheim's powerful score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Klein is wrong about the Democrats being "tone-deaf" on national security. The problem is, nobody has yet figured out the good answer for the bad question "Are human rights more important than American national security?" The right answer is that without human rights, America cannot have national security. It is not "our freedom" that Osama bin Laden hates. It is the fact that we preserve our rights here in America but deny the same freedoms to others. Every time we infringe on human rights in an effort to bolster security, we lose both. Denying human rights has always been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...combat a climate of “political apathy and careerism.” While we current undergraduates—who here stand accused of callous ambition—respect the letter’s aims, we disagree with its proposed solution and doubt whether there is a problem...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Against Apathy, Always | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...beyond the arc. Starter Finelli also made three of her five shots from long range. It was the easy ones, the close ones, which gave the Crimson trouble and left Delaney-Smith scratching her head.“I think we’re turning it into a head problem, and that’s ridiculous,” Delaney-Smith said. “The irony is that they’re hitting them in practice. But they need to get their butts down here and shoot some more.”To make matters worse, Harvard turned...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Against Providence, Little Things Go Awry | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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