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On the Cover: Within a week both yogurt- and green plantain-based diets show therapeutic benefit in the nutritional management of persistent diarrhea in children. Each diet improved weight gain and recovery from diarrhea with a small rate of recurrent diarrhea after hospital discharge. Although the rate of recovery from malnutrition and diarrhea had the same tendency in both groups, there was a faster resolution of diarrhea and better weight gain in those infants receiving a green plantain-based diet. In addition to the 40% reduction of expenses in hospital care and fluids needed for both diets, green plantain-based treatment produced further savings due to its lower cost, as compared to yogurt-based treatment, another advantage of the green plantain diet. See paper by Álvarez-Acosta et al. (pp. 169–176). Plantains, members of the same genus (Musd) as bananas, though firmer, with less sugar, and more frequently cooked, originated in Southeast Asia, but have long been widely grown in all tropical regions. The cover image is from a postcard picturing a plantain packaging facility in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, which lie about 60 miles off the northwest African coast in the Atlantic Ocean. The image, produced circa 1910, is in the public domain.