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Commentary Shah: Revenge of the Microbes: Taming Drug-Resistant Malaria

Commentary, April, 30 2012 Sonia Shah
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The sad truth is that each wonder drug we’ve thrown at malaria—and every other infectious disease—has fallen to drug-resistant pathogens

Commentary Shah: Climate’s Strong Fingerprint

Commentary, February, 23 2011 Sonia Shah
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For decades, deadly outbreaks of cholera were attributed to the spread of disease through poor sanitation. But recent research demonstrates how closely cholera is tied to environmental and hydrological factors and to weather patterns — all of whic...

Commentary Shah: TED Lecturer Exploits African Women & Children

Commentary, March, 16 2010 Sonia Shah
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Doesn’t Nathan Myhrvold get enough attention? The guy is the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, a multimillionaire, a gourmet chef, a prize-winning photographer and keeper of multiple higher degrees from prestigious institutions. As the...

Commentary Shah: Review of new Harrison Ford flick, "Extraordinary Measures"

Commentary, February, 23 2010 Sonia Shah
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Compared to, say, espionage or alien warfare, the drug development business rarely appears on the big screen, and its few cinematic portrayals generally involve sinister white-coated characters doing shadowy experiments. In that sense, the new fil...

Commentary Shah: Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

Commentary, January, 09 2010 Sonia Shah
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Originally published in Yale Environment 360, Sonia Shah writes that in the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level e...

Commentary Shah: On Speckled Legs and Springtime Mosquitoes: Reflections on World Malaria Day 2009

Commentary, April, 24 2009 Sonia Shah
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Last weekend, the mosquitoes emerged from the narrow stream that trickles by our house outside Baltimore, flitting around the ankles of my 9-year-old son, skipping stones with his pants rolled up to his knees.

Commentary Shah: Malaria Resurges Around the Globe

Commentary, April, 24 2008 Sonia Shah
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There is a disease that annually sickens over one-half billion people, killing over 1 million. Because of climate change, increasingly aggressive resource extraction, and growing multi-drug resistance, every year, the disease fells 16 percent more...

Commentary Shah: Diabetes Is Not Just An American Problem

Commentary, January, 31 2006 Sonia Shah
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This week's New York Times series on diabetes in New York City throws much needed light on the silent epidemic of chronic disease brought on by our sedentary, fast-food culture. But diabetes is not just an American problem. It is spreading fast to...

Commentary Shah: The Tiniest Trash Bin

Commentary, April, 11 2004 Sonia Shah
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As I approach the tiny, blue bucket of wizened, cracked plastic propped near the sink, various molded plastic and rubber items in hand, the servants washing up start to snicker. I falter, standing there in a crumbling tenement apartment in Mumbai,...

Commentary Shah: Our Liquid Slave

Commentary, June, 10 2003 Sonia Shah
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The American empire on recent display in Iraq rose from a vast, primordial ooze of cheap, abundant petroleum, one of the most energy-intense liquids on earth, packing over 36,000 kcal of heat in every gallon-more energy than produced by 5 kilogram...

Commentary Shah: I Went To The Other Side Of The World And Found Bush Fires Burning

Commentary, November, 14 2002 Sonia Shah
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Even when we first touched down on this flat, salty, ancient continent, we knew we were on the other side of the world. The moon was half-full, but just the bottom half was visible, a porcelain tea-cup. We were in the far north, it was winter, and...

Commentary Shah: Unveiling the Taleban Dress Codes Are Not the Issue, New Study Finds

Commentary, July, 10 2001 Sonia Shah
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While outrage over the Taleban's requirement that Afghan women wear a head-to-toe veil continues, a new comprehensive study shows that the majority of Afghan women consider the Taleban's dress codes a non-issue, and many choose to wear the burqa o...

Commentary Shah: The New Yellow Peril: China-Bashing for New Defense Spending Fuels Hate Against Asian Americans

Commentary, June, 22 2001 Sonia Shah
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Senator Feinstein surprised the civil rights organizers who threw her an informal wine-and-cheese shmoozer a couple months ago with an impromptu speech warning of the gathering speed of anti-China sentiment in Congress and the impending fallout fo...

Commentary Shah: Lost in Translation On the Liabilities of Being an American Abroad

Commentary, May, 14 2001 Sonia Shah
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You get so used to walking around feeling like a big smart smartypants, understanding (and disapproving of) most things around you (come on, you know what I mean) and then something simple happens that shows you, in a flash, how fragile and circum...

Commentary Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk: Part Three

Commentary, April, 10 2001 Sonia Shah
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Anti-formula activists and development officials often claim that millions of infants die every year because they are not breastfed (this is probably based on the fact that millions of infants die of diarrhea from contaminated water every year--wh...

Commentary Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk

Commentary, March, 05 2001 Sonia Shah
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Part OneOne night, a small American boy slipped into bed with his mother and suckled at her breast for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep. The next day, he told his babysitter he wanted to stop doing so, but "Mommy wouldn't let me." The ch...

Commentary Shah: The Celebrated Immigrant: Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's Asian American Subterfuge

Commentary, February, 15 2001 Sonia Shah
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Labor and civil rights groups were outraged at Bush's nomination of anti-affirmative action, anti-minimum wage Linda Chavez for labor secretary. But strangely, when Bush quickly replaced Chavez with anti-affirmative action, anti-minimum wage (and ...

Commentary Shah: Social Alienation and the School of Fish Theory of Social Change

Commentary, April, 30 2000 Sonia Shah
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Did you miss me? YouÕve been busy, with world-shaking, front-page social change happenings. In my sleep-deprived fog even I noticed that things were getting exciting, and I missed you. My six-month leave from work to look after my 2 kids, aged 3 a...

Commentary Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldÊ

Commentary, November, 21 1999 Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)

Commentary Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World 

Commentary, November, 21 1999 Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)

Commentary Shah: Young and Younger

Commentary, October, 06 1999 Sonia Shah
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As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...

Commentary Shah: What Are You On? Hormones?

Commentary, August, 07 1999 Sonia Shah
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I am not proud, but not ashamed either, to admit I am humbled by hormones. I used to pride myself on being logical: as a philosophy major, I got an A+ in deductive logic in school. But under the powerful effect of estrogens and other biochemicals ...

Commentary Shah: Asian American?

Commentary, April, 26 1999 Sonia Shah
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I was recently asked to write about Asian American History Month, which, since 1979, has been observed during the month of May.

Commentary Shah: My Fantasy Goddess Is Not A Barbie Doll

Commentary, March, 04 1999 Sonia Shah
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This holiday season, Mattel, the worldÕ biggest toy maker is poised to embarrass itself and enrage Asians across the globe, with the release of its latest collectible Barbie: The Fantasy Goddess of Asia.

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