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With the criticisms recently launched against foreign aid programs, do you think Africa is better off without them? Cherae Robinson, ATLANTA...
...tell young women to try to be the best you can. Be better than the next person, particularly the next man. It's still a male-dominated world. We still have a long way to go, and that's why all women must strive to reach their greatest potential...
...Spanish-flu pandemic ended only when the virus had infected so many people that it burned itself out. Today, doctors have better tools--antivirals and respirators--that would cut the potential death toll. But influenza is unpredictable. "There's no standard picture for how this develops," says Keiji Fukuda, a top World Health Organization official. We can prepare, but in the end, we're at the mercy of a virus...
Many of the people on our list made the cut on the basis of social innovation, activism or an ability to change people's lives for the better. But not everyone. Bernie Madoff is on this year's list. So is one of the world's most notorious drug dealers. In the end, we tried to cover as much ground as possible--and to match our subjects with pitch-perfect writers: Oprah Winfrey on Michelle Obama, Ted Turner on T. Boone Pickens (and vice versa), Roger Federer on Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie on Cambodian activist Somaly Mam. All bring passion...
...Crimson capped off its season by coming back from a 7-0 deficit to beat Northeastern, 16-13, on Tuesday.13-28 doesn’t exactly cleanse the palette of the bad taste left by 10-30. But there’s no doubt that Harvard is in a better place looking towards the future than it was at the end of last season.Sure, the Crimson will have to take four steps back before it takes any steps forward as it loses its quartet of senior sluggers. But Douglas and Rogers didn’t do much with the bat until...