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...weeks a year on the center and one week on Habitat. The center is designed to meet the needs of the poorest and most forgotten people in the world. We deal with neglected diseases. We mediate disputes. The thing that gets the most publicity is Habitat. Last year we built 100 homes in India in just four days because Brad Pitt showed up and we were inundated with unanticipated volunteers...
...Bush's social conscience is not just talk, though. Even his fiercest critics give him credit for good-faith pursuit of charitable ends. Most of the Democratic presidential candidates support the faith-based alliances he has built with parochial charities and agree that they have tapped into an important resource for community assistance programs at home and abroad. Foreign aid experts say some of his new foreign aid programs are not just well-funded, they actually work. "He deserves credit for that," says Tim Rieser, the Democrats' top staffer on the Senate committee that oversees foreign...
What gets you in Shanghai isn’t that between 1992 and today they’ve built twice as many skyscrapers as exist in New York City. Or that another 1,000 are slated for completion for the World Expo in 2010. (Construction is literally taking place around the clock on its tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center...
...most impressive sight of awesome excess was in Suzhou, a neighboring, “medium-sized” city of six million people (Suzhou is one of over 60 Chinese cities with more than a million people). On a lake in a hyper-modern downtown district built entirely in the last few years, the city hosts a weekly display of pyrotechnics and choreographed water-technics that puts the Bellagio in Las Vegas to shame...
...always within shouting distance of the Big Green but never in control. The most exciting moment of the weekend came in the first game with Harvard trailing by a score of 25-19. A string of aggressive kill attempts and nearly miraculous digs and subsequent returns by both teams built upon one another for what seemed to be a span of nearly an entire minute. The crowd grew louder and louder as the disbelief of each successive play was topped only by that which followed it. Dartmouth finally put the point away with a laser-like shot that just barely...