Один глупец,постигший все науки,
Сказал, что человек рожден для муки.
И это повторили все глупцы,
А у глупцов есть сыновья и внуки.
И стала жизнь проклятием для всех,
Хоть помирай не с горя, так со скуки.
И удлинились уши у людей,
Взгляд потускнел и опустились руки.
Не будь жестоким к тем, что норовят
Тебя обидеть словом или взглядом,
Будь, как гора: когда ее долбят,
Она молчит и раскрывает клады.
Пусть все кругом, не видя в том беды,
Тебе наносят боль без сожаленья.
Пока висят на дереве плоды,
В него бросают палки и каменья.
Будь щедрым в час, когда уж смерть видна,
Уже в преддверьи ада или рая,
Как раковина, взятая со дна,
Что людям дарит жемчуг — умирая.
(Mirza-Shafi)
Do not be cruel to those who keep trying
To hurt you with words or with looks.
Be like the mountain: when it is being hammered
It stays silent and reveals buried treasures.
Let everybody around you, not seeing it as cause for concern,
Hurt you without regretting it.
While the trees bears fruit,
It always gets sticks and stones thrown at it.
Be generous even in the hour when you can already see your death approaching,
At the doorstep of Heaven or Hell,
Like the seashell removed from the bottom of the ocean,
Which gives people the gift of pearl, as it dies.
By Frederik Joelving
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 14 - When she first described it in 1961, Patricia Jevons, a British bacteriologist, may have had a hard time imagining that the tiny bug she was staring at would soon become a penicillin-mocking juggernaut -- a superbug that kills an estimated 19,000 Americans a year and make millions more sick.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- or MRSA for short -- is the subject of journalist Maryn McKenna's new book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Free Press, March 2010). She spoke with Reuters Health on Thursday about the bacteria's toll on public health and how we may, unwittingly, be helping a new strain along (see more on http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/05/12/a-conversation-with-maryn-mckenna-author-of-superbug-the-fatal-menace-of-mrsa/).
"One of the problems with MRSA, one of the reasons why it's become what I consider a true crisis, is that I really don't think we've been taking it sufficiently seriously for a very long time," McKenna said.
MRSA first crossed the Atlantic in 1968, landing in what used to be called Boston City Hospital. Then it inched its way across the country until 1980, when it infected a burn victim at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and caused a devastating outbreak.
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