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...Born in Birmingham, Ala., on New Year's Eve, 1930, and raised in Los Angeles, Odetta Holmes had a big voice early on; she was schooled in opera from the age of 13. Appearing in a tour of the musical Finian's Rainbow in her late teens, she started to lend her classical and musical-stage training to the folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively...
Iskenderian: It is truly astonishing how the microfinance industry has changed since I began working in the field of international development. Microfinance has really come of age, and I think that many of the trends I mentioned before - from commercialization to product diversification - have all played a part in this transformation. But as I said before, to take full advantage of microfinance's potential, it is also important for the industry to continue to innovate and evolve. One of the most significant changes has been the move from group to individual lending - an area that Women's World Banking...
Obesity-related illnesses, like diabetes, are so prevalent among the mentally ill that health officials call them an epidemic within an epidemic. For example, about 13% of schizophrenic adults in their 50s have received a diabetes diagnosis, compared with 8% of the general population of the same age. In October, the NASMHPD released another report, with recommendations for treating the particular problem of obesity, including giving those with severe mental illness better access to dietary consultations and promoting the prescription of low-weight-gain antipsychotics. The agency is currently working on creating a tool kit for federal health-care providers...
...first go at entrepreneurship; he and his brother Matthew founded DormAid during college, a project they continue to manage. “It gives me the ability to express my creativity. My only limits are my ambitions,” Kopko says. But running a company at this age isn’t easy, especially when many of your partners are still in school—Matthew Kopko is currently a law student in Chicago, and chief of marketing for GradeFund, Roy Moran, is a senior at Emory University in Atlanta. And people aren’t paying them...
...physics. Except for one: Merritt A. Moore ’10. This year, Moore took a year off from Einstein and relativity to focus on a different kind of motion: ballet. Currently on the Swiss stage with the Zurich Ballet Company, the physics concentrator began dancing at the age of 13 in Southern California. She practiced ballet throughout high school and performed with the Harvard Ballet Company on campus. Moore’s partner in many HBC dances has been Kevin Shee ’10. “[Merrit’s] pretty much one of the most...