Archive : Summer 2007
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 Through August 10: At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the exhibit “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” features the methods (physical measurements, observations of genetic traits such as eye color) that the Nazis put to terrifying use in deeming people “racially foreign.”
August 13: Arkansas may scale back its program to test the body mass index of schoolchildren. The first of several states to require such testing in an effort to fight obesity, Arkansas has come under fire for potentially injuring students’ self-esteem.
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CHILD’S PLAY is the unlikely solution to a sub-Saharan public health crisis: the high incidence of disease transmitted by dirty water. With each rotation of a PlayPump’s colorful merry-go-round, children draw clean water from 330-foot-deep wells into 660-gallon storage tanks that feature space for advertisements and public health messages about such concerns as HIV/AIDS prevention and proper hand-washing. The ad revenues fund the maintenance of the $14,000 system.
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