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In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In translating the literature of Eastern European and Baltic languages, there is an additional necessity to circumvent the American tendency to concentrate on the Jewish experience of the Holocaust, and thereby to (perhaps unwittingly) undervalue the extraordinary suffering of all civilian populations.
Separation of families, starvation, epidemic disease (cholera, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, dysentery), debilitating injury, death, deportation, diasporic displacement—these were European traumas during World War II and its aftermath of displaced persons, shifting borders and new nations cobbled together by the power-brokering and diplomatic trade-offs at war's end.
Since the defeat of Wales in the thirteenth century (or earlier by the reckoning of some historians), English has been the language of the conquerer.
www.thedrunkenboat.com /latvianintro.html   (1864 words)

  
 GeneLebell.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It would be easy to blame any of LeBell's antisocial tendencies on the fact that he had no father, but in truth, Judo Gene was raucus almost from the beginning.
When he was five his older brother contracted diptheria and was confined for six months to a wheelchair.
One day Gene took his brother for a stroll and left him in the middle of busy Olympic Boulevard.
www.genelebell.com /stories.html   (6119 words)

  
 VacTrac2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
And we ask "Why aren't adults given the DPT?" Our boosters from kindergarten wore off when we were around 9 years old, so, how dangerous is this disease?
The vaccine for Whooping Cough is the DPT, with Pertussis the 'P' given along with Diptheria and Tetanus, for a reason.
ALl the vaccines can be looked up in the PDR (physicians desk reference), a massive book inside every library.
www.exoticnames.com /allfiles/vactrac2.htm   (2964 words)

  
 Currents Spring 2006
A health problem that can be easily treated now could become a life-or-death matter then.
As you smile incredulously at these strange remedies, think of the desperation of a mother caring for a child with diptheria— a disease that killed countless children in the 19th century.
And don’t blame her for trying anything and everything she knew—even if it meant covering the child’s neck with a split frog.
history.utah.gov /news_and_events/currents/CurrentsSpring2006.html   (6262 words)

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