According to Save the Children, it would have cost $1.6 billion to bring health -care up to minimum standards in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
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Global Health: Ebola-Stricken Countries Lagged in Health Systems
Mar 10, 2015
Global Health: Ebola-Stricken Countries Lagged in Health Systems
Global Health: Ebola-Stricken Countries Lagged in Health Systems
Tsunami on demand: Nanoscale rogue waves research sheds light on power to harness catastrophic events
A new study features a nano-optical chip that makes possible generating and controlling nanoscale rogue waves. The innovative chip was developed by an international team of physicists and is expected to have significant applications for energy research and environmental safety. - Source
Tsunami on demand: Nanoscale rogue waves research sheds light on power to harness catastrophic events
Cooperative communities emerge in transparent social networks
An online experiment reveals that the overall level of cooperation in a group almost doubles when the previous actions of all its members are rendered transparent. When all social connections within the group are also made transparent, the most cooperative band together to form their own community — ostracizing the less cooperative. - Source
Cooperative communities emerge in transparent social networks
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS: Scientists reveal structural secrets of nature's little locomotive
Scientists have determined the basic structural organization of a molecular motor that hauls cargoes and performs other critical functions within cells. The complex’s large size, myriad subunits and high flexibility have until now restricted structural studies to small pieces of the whole. - Source
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS: Scientists reveal structural secrets of nature's little locomotive
Ovarian Cancer: Chemotherapy and Improved Surgical Techniques
Epithelial ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancer in the United States and is the country’s fifth most common cause of cancer mortality in women. In 2015, it is estimated that more than 21,000 new diagnoses and more than 14,000 deaths from this neoplasm will occur in the United States; less than 40 percent of women with ovarian cancer are cured. - Source
Ovarian Cancer: Chemotherapy and Improved Surgical Techniques
Understanding why a material's behavior changes as it gets smaller
To fully understand how nanomaterials behave, one must also understand the atomic-scale deformation mechanisms that determine their structure and, therefore, their strength and function. - Source
Understanding why a material's behavior changes as it gets smaller
Hillary Clinton Prepares to Address Her Use of Private Email as Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton has spoken at a handful of events since the report that she exclusively used a private email account at the State Department, but her lone public utterance has been a Twitter post.
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Hillary Clinton Prepares to Address Her Use of Private Email as Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton Prepares to Address Her Use of Private Email as Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton has spoken at a handful of events since the report that she exclusively used a private email account at the State Department, but her lone public utterance has been a Twitter post.
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Hillary Clinton Prepares to Address Her Use of Private Email as Secretary of State
DealBook: PNC Joins Banks Not Financing Mountaintop Coal Removal
PNC Financial joins a growing list of banks that no longer finance coal-mining companies that pursue the mountaintop removal of coal, an environmentally devastating practice.
DealBook: PNC Joins Banks Not Financing Mountaintop Coal Removal
New judge to hear Ferguson court cases after federal probe
(Reuters) – A Missouri state appeals court judge will take over all current and future cases assigned to Ferguson’s municipal courts following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report that found systemic abuses, the Missouri Supreme Court said on Monday.
New judge to hear Ferguson court cases after federal probe
State of the Art: Apple Watch Displays Your Digital World, at a Glance
Initial impressions of the Apple Watch are that it is good looking for a smartwatch and not hard to use, but whether it is yet a necessary purchase remains unsettled.
State of the Art: Apple Watch Displays Your Digital World, at a Glance
Tech Blog GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down
The technology blog, founded in 2006, became a fixture in Silicon Valley and claimed 6.4 million monthly readers.
Tech Blog GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down
2 helicopters crash in northwest Argentina, 10 dead
LA RIOJA, Argentina (AP) — Two helicopters carrying passengers filming a popular European reality show crashed Monday in a remote area of northwest Argentina, killing eight French citizens and two Argentines, authorities said…. - Source
2 helicopters crash in northwest Argentina, 10 dead
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