Last year Justine Shaw left her beloved Zimbabwe. Like millions of other she had suffered years of uncertainty and fear, and watched as the country fell in to the abyss as a result of government tyranny. Here she recounts how the decay set in.
( Inderscience Publishers ) Dental caries afflict at least 90 percent of the world's population at some time in their lives. Detecting the first signs of this disease, which can be lethal in extreme cases, just got easier thanks to work by researchers in India discussed in the latest issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology.
In Britain, media have been reporting a strange mold affecting audiotape and videotape. Much magnetic tape has already been destroyed by the dustlike substance, and many museums and archives may not know it yet, as they have not opened their boxes of old cassettes for years. The mold is so hardy that it spreads easily, so if you touch one contaminated tape and then handle another, you are likely
last 14 days. “I could tell by the writing it was probably from an old lady,” she said. For weeks, it seemed a stranger cared more whether LeDuc, 35, lived or died from a rare form of cancer than some local dentists and the University of Washington Medical Center.
As Roman Catholics, we still have a long row to hoe, but not because of a more conservative pope or the remnants of the scandals that linger like a skunk after the fact ("Losing Their Religion," Kathryn Jean Lopez, PostScript, Aug. 17). No, it's
Presidential Towers is a nondescript, 10-story apartment building in the residential and commercial mishmash behind the Green. It sits behind a bracelet of once-gracious homes in the Hillside historic district that comprised the Chase estate. These days, they serve as funeral homes, attorneys' offices and social services agencies.
The Fifth Annual Art Inside the Park festival kicks off Aug. 21 outside the new Atelier CMS Inc. Museum. In the past, this annual festival has showcased local designer's work and out-of-town contemporary artists' installations.