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Since 2008 Grameen has collected 1,700 borrowers in New York City, and last June it opened a second branch in Omaha, Neb. Other cities in its sights include San Francisco, Boston and Charlotte, N.C. - anywhere local businesspeople raise seed capital and a bank will host low-cost savings accounts for borrowers with just a few dollars, since savings are a key part of the Grameen philosophy. "There are whole populations that aren't being reached by the banking sector," says Bob Annibale, director of microfinance at Citibank, which partners with Grameen in New York. Like other financial giants, Citi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microfinance Make It in America? | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson’s feat is made even more remarkable by the fact that many of the Harvard swimmers were racing in “off-events,” ones that they normally do not compete in.“It was good to be able to branch out from what we’ve all been normally swimming,” senior Bill Jones said.Jones, who usually swims the 100- and 200-yard butterfly, was one of the Crimson’s two swimmers placing first in more than one individual event. Jones captured his signature 100-yard...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Remains Perfect Against Quakers | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

Health officials have been tracking the strain in question since the last flu season, when the CDC reported that 11% of flu cases were resistant to Tamiflu. According to Dr. Joseph Bresee, chief of the epidemiology and prevention branch of the CDC's influenza division, experts believe the resistant strain is the result of a spontaneous mutation in the influenza virus genome and not the result of overuse of antimicrobial agents like Tamiflu to treat the infection. That's based on the fact that during the last flu season, the resistant strain was widespread in countries with low Tamiflu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What You Need to Know About Drug-Resistant Flu | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...more famous pastry chefs get their own restaurants, ingredients that had been on one side of the menu are showing up on the other. And some chefs are starting to branch out from bacon and put other meats in sweets. Jos� Andr�s of Washington's Minibar and Los Angeles' Bazaar serves foie gras surrounded by cotton candy. Ramon Perez, the pastry chef at L.A.'s Sona, added shrimp to his salted caramels for a sweet brininess--and a fear-factor thrill. Perez, who also serves apple lasagna with crispy bacon, is delighted by the mainstreaming of meat for dessert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Cooking? Bacon, For Dessert | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...induced delivery, which can occur any time after 37 weeks and in which the baby is initiating the process. "In a vaginal delivery, that baby instigated the labor, and is therefore ready and can be healthy at 37 weeks," says Dr. Catherine Spong, chief of the pregnancy and perinatology branch at NICHD and one of the co-authors of the paper. These results also do not apply to women who go into labor prior to 39 weeks and end up having a cesarean; likewise for them, the baby instigated the labor process and is more likely to be ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks of Early C-Sections | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

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