Burma through bilious eyes

In The Fight, his classic account of the “Rumble in the Jungle”, Norman Mailer arrives in Zaire to learn that George Foreman has cut his eye during training and the showdown with Muhammad Ali is postponed. This is just as well, because Mailer is suffering from “some viral disruption” and is in no shape for [...]

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In Bangladesh, A New Way to Fight Cholera

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.

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