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...story of Abdullah Akoh provides a chilling window into just how young men are "lured away." A 31-year-old ustaz, Abdullah is being held in a military hospital, recovering from bullet wounds received when shooting dead a soldier in July. He says that as a boy he was told tales of atrocities committed by security forces against Muslims and so needed little convincing that the south should secede. Abdullah says he was recruited by a traveling preacher called Ustaz Soh. "The organization is always looking for people and has members all over, seeing who has the potential...
...doctors' phones ringing. A few days earlier, an independent panel had concluded that taking the drug for more than 18 months doubled the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. Merck had a choice: it could beef up its warning labels, or it could bite the bullet and pull its blockbuster off the market. Given the legal risks of selling a drug known to cause heart problems, Merck probably did the right thing...
Debt relief is NOT A MAGIC BULLET. The poor countries still need a lot of resources...
...whatsoever." So even for countries that have benefited from debt relief, write-offs are only one step on the ladder out of poverty. And it's a small step. "Frankly, debt relief should be put in the proper perspective," says the World Bank official. "It's not a magic bullet. The poor countries still need a lot of resources." Writing off the remaining debts of the 27 countries that have qualified for the HIPC initiative would cost about $2.3 million a year, a small sum compared to the $50 billion in annual aid flowing to the developing world. Eclipsing both...
...understood it. Occasionally I was also responsible for delivering said information to various members of our and other firms. Once I even spell-checked a Powerpoint presentation that was being given to the CFO of a Fortune 500 corporation. The CFO! I considered changing the order of the bullet-points in favor of the transaction so that the lines starting with my initials read sequentially, but the risk of being found out was just too great. After all, there are four layers of employees between me and the guy who will eventually give the presentation...