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Dates: during 2000-2009
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From the most local civic groups to the largest businesses, we all want to make a difference. General Electric, for example, donates large amounts of hospital equipment. Becton, Dickinson does the same with syringes and diagnostics. Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and others have launched major drug programs, backed by considerable staff efforts, to battle devastating diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, trachoma, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Coalition of Good | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...case. For while the study can explain some friendships--the cast of The Facts of Life, for instance, or the together-through-thin-and-thinner bond of Paris & Nicole--it doesn't account for so many of history's finest partnerships: Laurel & Hardy, Skipper & Gilligan, Abbott & Costello, Siskel & Ebert, and those most enduring of all buddies, Ernie & Bert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Friends Make You Fat | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...warm human qualities of the men killed-love of family, God or music-perhaps called for more subtlety than adherence to your editorial stylebook, which in this case was cold and harsh. Referring to the servicemen by their first names would have been a gentler act of respect. Jez Abbott, Hastings, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...warm human qualities of the men killed - love of family, God or music - perhaps called for more subtlety than adherence to your editorial stylebook, which in this case was cold and harsh. Referring to the servicemen by their first names would have been a gentler act of respect. Jez Abbott, HASTINGS, ENGLAND

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil's Curse | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

...avenues to build their families. With each adoption costing up to $30,000 and often demanding mounds of paperwork and weeks of travel, workers are asking their employers for help. They're getting it, mainly from companies in competitive industries hungry to attract and keep talent. Google, JPMorgan Chase, Abbott Laboratories, Avon and Motorola have all added adoption assistance to their buffet of benefits. In 1990, only 12% of 1,000 companies surveyed by Hewitt Associates offered financial assistance for adoption. By 2006, 45% of companies did. Rita Sorensen, executive director of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, estimates that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adapting to Adoption | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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