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...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), one of four institutions administering the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), won a five-year $107 million grant in February for relief work in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania...
...ranks 104 economies on whether they have what it takes to keep growing. Japan, which placed 21st in 2001, has muscled its way back into the top 10 on the strength of renewed confidence and improved public-sector transparency. But China has fallen to 46th place, behind Latvia and Botswana. "The message to China is you've grown really well," says WEF senior economist Jennifer Blanke, "but if you want to continue to grow, you have to improve your institutions, cut down on corruption, improve property rights and ensure your work force is extremely educated." Even in an epochal boom...
Several runways pointed toward Africa; Gianfranco Ferré showed an uncharacteristically wearable collection of animal prints. And in Milan, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, inspired by a recent trip to Botswana, presented one of their best collections in many seasons, with snakeskin coats and zebra-striped chiffon dresses. They're on a commercial roll; several days later, the company announced in its latest annual report double-digit growth in both profit and sales...
...days are obsessed with outsourcing, and the fashion business is no different. You could say that the European designers on display at the spring 2005 collection last week in Milan went beyond manufacturing clothes abroad; they outsourced their inspiration. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who had recently traveled to Botswana, brought back a sexy show filled with zebra-striped chiffon dresses, ivory bangles and chic safari jackets. After a 10-day romp through Asia last April, Giorgio Armani returned with a vision of a fictional Asian woman in soft satin pajama pants, boxy Chinese jackets and coolie hats. Gianfranco Ferre...
...dismaying to Vashti McKenzie when she arrived in Africa four years ago. After all, McKenzie, now 57, had just been elected the first female bishop in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and been posted to its 18th district, which includes the churches of Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Mozambique. Friends had warned that the African church was particularly patriarchal, and here was linguistic proof...