Resurrection of the white plague
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The number of cases of tuberculosis reported annually in America has increased by 16% since 1985, althoughit was thought to have been eradicated. The mycobacterium tuberculosis microbe can cause long periods of chronic illness, although not everyone infected gets tuberculosis. Those also carrying HIV are more likely to do so. The drug streptomycin has not been improved on and is almost unobtainable in America. Research was abandoned because of the respite in the disease. In developing countries medicines have been distributed without controls overtheir use and patients are unwilling to take the drug for the full 6 to 18 months so resistant organisms can proliferate.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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Jimi's resurrection puts Ljubljana on the map
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Deputy head of light entertainment for the Slovenian Broadcasting Service Marko Prpic persuaded the Ministry of Culture to display the Jimi Hendrix Exhibition which has been shown in European private galleries. The newly independent republic held the exhibition in the gallery of the architectural museum in Ljubljana. Pripic, 41, was blinded at 13, but regained some sight at 20 and graduated in history and philosophy. When blind, he found Hendrix's music rebellious but meaningful.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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The giant of Ljubljana
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Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek feels that his focus is on Descartes and German Idealism, especially Hegel. His ultimate goal is to defend philosophically the dimension of modern Cartesian subjectivity. He believes that he was aware from the age of about 17 that he would become a philosopher. He feels that real politics is the art of the impossible, rather than the possible, with a real political act being one which dissolves its context.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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