In the Ministry of Housing's dim halls that seem like a throwback to betterdays in the 1950s, Heba Abdelfadel, an architect and consultant for the division of the ministry that headed Cairo 2050, hunches over blueprints of a slum where she hopes to create wider roads in order to open the community to commerce.
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The wonder drug of the era was penicillin, which along with better hygiene and other treatments, thwarted diseases that only seem to ravage developing countries these days yellow fever, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, typhus, and more.