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Our Neighbors, Ourselves

Editor's Note: Living Globally

If We Fail to Act, by Paul Farmer, M.D.
Access to proper health care is a human-rights issue that needs to be addressed for the world to avert the mass killing that will come in the decades ahead from preventable, treatable diseases.
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Platform for Tomorrow, by John Nagy '00
Jordan Hall will redefine science education at Notre Dame and prepare generations of students to embrace the challenges facing the planet well beyond the foreseeable future.
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Alicia Lachiondo's Widening Circle of Influence, by Ryan Millbern
The '06 graduate has already made an impact on the world beyond campus.
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Lesotho, by Ken Storen '92
Notre Dame alumni and Touching Tiny Lives bring comfort to the sick of a remote south African nation.
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The Littlest Killers, by Erik Ness
Mosquitoes and the diseases they carry are capable of wiping out whole populations. Notre Dame scientists are investigating the genetics of death to stop epidemics at the source.
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The Village Well, by Erik Ness
Good, clean water is essential to human life. But in many parts of the world the water is a source of disease, misery, even death. What's being done?
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Perspectives

• Winged Omens, by Elizabeth Dodd
• Double Dip, by Gina Vozenilek
• Dress for Distress, by Peggy Duffy
• Soul Provider, by Barbara Mangione '89M.A.

(Cover photo by Matt Cashore '94)

• A Notre Dame preview for high school students
  • Pre-college programs at a glance
• Seen and heard on campus
• Letter from campus: Life in the fast lane
• Hall portrait: Grace
• ACE teachers cycle across America
• Civilizing kids sports one Catholic at a time
• Wanted: Catholic scholars
• Honor exam to put brakes on cheating
• For some at ND, violence in Lebanon hit home

Letters

Letters to the editor

Illuminations

• The world is no longer MAD
• When 'men' came off the menu
• The girls' dream matchup
• The physics of flix
• Painting a bull's eye on bacteria

Cafe du Lac

• Architect captures the shape of change
• Books by ND people
• Picks of the week
  

Alumni Affairs

• Domers in the news
• Alumni briefs

Bonus copy: Poetry

Poems are by definition lively creatures," writes John Engels '52. Recounting the Seasons: Poems, 1958-2005 (University of Notre Dame Press) offers the collected work of the award-winning author, along with new and previously unpublished poetry. Read a sample of his poetry.

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