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...despite the horrific fate of the toiletless masses across much of South America, Africa and Asia, sanitation has never been high on the world's development agenda. NGOs and governments focus on making sure the poor have access to enough clean drinking water, but comparatively little funding goes into sanitation, even though the two are sometimes inextricable: Untreated sewage often ends up poisoning the available clean water in developing nations. In The Big Necessity, George makes a passionate argument for putting sanitation at the top of the global development agenda, profiling the efforts of redoubtable activists fighting...
...appropriate relationship with teaching hospitals, as long as it doesn’t lead to development of redundant facilities,” said Donald J. Thieme, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals, a trade group. “Hospitals have relatively poor balance sheets and access to capital is very limited, and when they initiate building programs only to have someone come in and duplicate those facilities, the financial framework for those hospitals is jeopardized. And that’s what’s been happening.” The new measures affect any company seeking...
...music that they would never have otherwise encountered, while simultaneously connecting thousands of great artists to a new fanbase. Seventy percent of the 60,000 artists on Pandora are not even signed to a major label, he added. Pandora recently became available on the iPhone, which allows listeners to access it on the road. By offering mobile service, Westergren said, Pandora’s vision for connecting listeners to new artists and artists to new listeners can be more widely available and accessible. “We want to completely fix radio,” he said...
...will assure that students no longer have to battle their way through Cambridge snow to Widener Library to request that obscure book needed for a paper that, unfortunately, sits in the off-campus depository. Scan and Deliver represents a great step in making HUL’s holdings more accessible and modernized. After its implementation, students will hopefully be able to access digitalized book excerpts from the University’s massive library collections...
...future use because of copyright constrictions. Such copies would have meant that future requests for books would gradually become near-instantaneous, while ensuring the preservation of the books in HUL’s archives should the hard copy be destroyed. We hope that HUL will push for even greater access moving forward...