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...Governments can create more incentives like the FDA voucher. We can expand the report-card idea beyond the pharmaceutical industry and make sure the rankings get publicity so companies get credit for doing good work. Consumers can reward companies that do their part by buying their products. Employees can ask how their employers are contributing. If more companies follow the lead of the most creative organizations in their industry, they will make a huge impact on some of the world's worst problems...
...when Ghanaians ask if I am 50-percent Asian and 50-percent American, I say that I am a 100 percent of both. And despite all the brown dust that cakes onto the back of my calves after walking, I can still scrape away a thin, pale line with my fingernail and revel in the fact that I will always be pasty. —Esther I. Yi '11, a Crimson news editor, is a History and Literature concentrator in Dunster House. She prefers...
...Visiting a stall that serves bhelpuri - a mix of puffed rice, dough, tomato and coriander that is the quintessential Mumbai snack - I find that the price has gone up from 37 rupees a plate to 42 (about $1), in line with the current inflation rate of 12%. I ask the manager of the stall if sales have slowed down at the higher price. He thinks this is funny, and he shares my question with his workers; they think it's funny too. One of them explains: "If you were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri...
...much more rational than we are, that we look at a politician and a party and we assess their policies and calculate [their impact] for us," says Rodney Barker, head of the Government department at the London School of Economics. "But we also look at politicians and ask: 'are they our sort of person?'" And that, says Catherine Needham, a lecturer in politics at Queen Mary, part of the University of London, includes "looking at their holiday destinations...
...productive in terms of legislation. In his first term, Bush used his political capital to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act and tax cuts. In 1993 Clinton passed the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Brady Handgun Bill and the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, and he created AmeriCorps. If Senator Barack Obama wins, this would be the first time that Democrats control both branches of government since the Clinton era, and the potential (and pressure) to complete lots of unfinished legislative business greatly increases...