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...billionaire cell-phone entrepreneur has promised millions of dollars to chosen African heads of state—and has given a Harvard lecturer the power to influence the selection. Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese cell phone entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom, recently announced plans to offer a $5 million award to a retired sub-Saharan African head of state who he determines has demonstrated good governance while in office and democratically ceded his position to his successor. That amount is the largest prize the world has seen yet, surpassing the $1.3 million of this year’s 2006 Nobel...
According to the Harvard College Web site, those groups range from the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Society to the Harvard College Stem Cell Society, from The Harvard College Society of Black Scientists and Engineers to Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe...
Patrick’s plan for strategic investment in key economic growth sectors, moreover, capitalizes on Massachusetts’ unique strengths to reinvigorate the state’s sagging economy. By advocating the use of state funds to drive the expansion of stem cell research in Boston and Cambridge, support agriculture in western Massachusetts, and encourage bio-fuel manufacturing in Springfield, Patrick offers a long-awaited departure from past Republican administrations’ emphasis on cutting taxes over investing in future growth...
Eschewing the moral self-righteousness of current Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney, Patrick has assumed bold and principled positions. This is evident not only in economic matters, noting his support of lucrative and potentially life-saving stem cell research—which Romney refused to use public money to fund—but also in his approach to gay marriage and abortion rights. Proudly pro-choice, Patrick is also a staunch supporter of equal marriage rights, including the right of out-of-state couples to marry in Massachusetts, even if their marriages will not be legitimized in their home states...
...South Pacific, as well as more than $600 million in revenues for the last fiscal year. In early 2007, he plans to establish Digicel in at least three new countries, including the one that might be overly ambitious, even for O'Brien: the U.S. and its $100 billion cell-phone market. O'Brien says he sees an underserved population, noting stats from the International Telecommunications Union that show only about 68 phones for every 100 Americans. "We're going to have to completely change how Americans view cell phones," says O'Brien. Exactly how he'll pull that...