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Is its prevention worse than the disease?

This theme has run wild lately with regard to malaria, and it is time to set the record straight. Let’s look at the facts and calm the excitement with some common sense.

To understand why we need protection against malaria, let’s understand what we are fighting. Malaria is a potentially fatal disease spread by mosquito bites. It’s found through much of the world but primarily in the tropics. It infects 300 million to 550 million people (yes, that is one-third to one-half billion people, about seven times the number of those suffering...

by Sandra Scott

Dim sum is uniquely Chinese. Consisting of a variety of dumplings and other items usually served in individual bamboo steamers, it could be equated to hors d’oeuvres, and when several are ordered they make a wonderful meal.

Dim sum translates to “touch your heart.” My husband, John, and I were introduced to dim sum in Hong Kong several years ago. A friend took us to a dim sum restaurant where a wheeled cart with a variety of dim sum choices went from table to table so diners could pick what they wanted. A picture menu showed the different choices, so when the...

—The Cruising World is written by Lew Toulmin.

We reclined comfortably, looking up at the thousands of brilliant stars overhead. The ship swayed slightly as she drove forward at 25 knots.

Suddenly the stars shifted dramatically, galaxies appeared and great streaks of color covered the heavens. Harrison Ford whispered in our ear, saying, “And now we will see Earth’s place among the stars.” For these were not the ordinary stars as seen from an ordinary ship, these were the stars of the only planetarium at sea, on board one of the world’s most remarkable ships: the Queen Mary 2...