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...Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys with holes in the center so that diarrhea would land in a bucket below...
Very soon, however, they realized that they could never do what they hoped to do because even their money was a drop in the bucket. Instead of downsizing their ambition, they decided they needed force multipliers--or leverage, to use one of Bill's favorite terms from Microsoft. They needed other organizations and countries to step up and make the foundation look puny. According to WHO's Commission for Macroeconomics and Health, it would cost $25 billion annually to save 8 million lives a year. The Gates Foundation will spend, this year, about $1 billion on global health. Bill Gates...
...That bucket triggered a 12-2 run, finished off with an emphatic slam by Stehle that saw Harvard’s lead balloon to 17 with 11:30 remaining in the contest. The Crimson made eight of its first nine baskets of the second half to spur the charge...
...miles away, city centers have become weekend no-go zones for the sober. Says Commander Chris Allison of London's Metropolitan Police: "There's a culture among certain young people that you haven't had a good night out unless you become paralytically drunk, puked up in a bucket, urinated on someone's front lawn and, best of all, smacked...
...second half, but the Terriers picked up where they left off in the first half with more hot shooting after the break. The Crimson, meanwhile, only got colder.Still, despite the inability to hit from the field, Harvard was never out of the game. Though Kevin Gardner’s bucket with 14:24 remaining gave BU a 50-38 advantage, the Crimson stayed within 10 points for much of the second half. Harvard pulled within five twice in the game’s final five minutes, but the Crimson could never put together an established run like the one from...