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Hutchinson's team, led by Dr. Jim Olson, spent three years developing the compound and tested it in a variety of human tumors grown in mice. So far, the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers, and they expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...
...When no one's looming over them, they begin making choices of their own," she says. "They discover consequences and learn to take responsibility for themselves and their emotions. They start learning self-discipline, self-confidence, team building. If we don't let kids work through their own problems, we get a generation of whiners...
...colonialism, really," she says. "The market is geared toward profit rather than the needs of the communities." Tourism Concern is developing a code of ethical conduct for the international volunteering sector and is gathering information from volunteers, tour companies and the communities they work in. Barnett plans to begin auditing U.K. firms but knows of no such initiatives...
...perfect trap: poor soils lead to poor harvests, and poor harvests lead to poor households unable to replenish the soil. But with a little help, Mbola has begun to break this cycle and begin the climb out of poverty. Last year it became a U.N.-backed Millennium Village and is now one of scores of such villages in more than a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa to receive aid from a new organization I had the honor of co-founding, Millennium Promise. Business and civic leaders helped form this poverty-ending alliance, which promotes holistic, community-driven economic-development...
From a development perspective, these initial steps give the community time to begin investing in long-term progress. An old state-owned textile mill in Tabora, which went bankrupt years ago, has recently been privatized and is being brought back to life by the new owners. Remarkably, even at a distance of several hundred miles from the nearest port, the mill is successfully exporting cotton thread to Europe and China. And Mbola's farmers have a chance to become part of that emerging success story by selling cotton to the revived mill. The farmers will also diversify into other tropical...