You own an airline. You’re mates with the head of one of the world’s largest armed forces. You’re immensely wealthy. How hard can it be to get a helicopter to rescue you from a snow-clad peak in northern Burma? Harder than you’d think. Two Burmese military helicopters reportedly tried and failed to extract tycoon Tay [...]

TIME.com
15 February 2011

Cholera kills 120,000 people every year, estimates the World Health Organization. Could mass vaccination be a new weapon against an old disease? The world is watching an ambitious new program to vaccinate 160,000 people in the cholera-prone capital of Bangladesh.