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The long wait before something happens.(editor's letter)
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OnEarth
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January 1, 2008
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YOU'LL FIND IN THESE PAGES SOME BRILLIANT SOLUTIONS TO SEVERAL OF OUR planet's more vexing crises. And yet ... Discerning what those solutions should be is often merely a halting first step across the wide chasm between knowledge and action--a long, agonizing stretch of time when societies have trouble mustering sufficient will and clarity to act.
In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria kills a million people every year, most of them pregnant women and babies. There exist medicines to treat the disease, larvicides to kill the young mosquitoes that carry it, and bed nets to keep adult mosquitoes from feasting on new victims. Spraying DDT inside homes can kill mosquitoes, too, though ...