Word: cent
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...support him with their pennies. It is for them, perhaps, that Li places an almost neurotic stress on the One Foundation's "transparency" and "professionalism." He says he wants to run the organization "like a listed company" and make it a "21st century charity." Before discussing how a single cent has been raised, he speaks of "best practices," explains how the foundation's finances are independently audited by Deloitte, and name-checks Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey as his management partners. Scores of funds were established in the wake of the Sichuan calamity - in fact the public's response...
...That survival instinct remains. Luo and her family put aside nearly every cent they earn. Her fiancé, Yang Yong, leaves early each morning to find work on reconstruction projects. "Even when he's sick he works," she says. "It will be even harder in the winter, but we have to live, so he goes." Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficultly finding work. Indeed, the extent of rebuilding still required means he can expect construction jobs for years to come. His 50-year...
...After Obama won, there was talk of a "Huxtable effect"--the idea that pop-cultural portrayals of African Americans from The Cosby Show to 24's David Palmer readied white America for a black President. But maybe there's an opposite factor at work here too--the 50 Cent effect. The impact of the Obamas comes partly from the unspoken contrast to a decades-old media archive of images of black people as problems or threats, from news to cop shows to hip-hop. Broken families, perp walks, AKs and Cristal...
That survival instinct remains. Luo and her family put aside nearly every cent they earn. Her fiancé leaves each morning to find work on reconstruction projects. Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficulty finding jobs. Indeed, his 50-year-old father works with him, but the family wonders how much longer the father can handle manual labor. So Luo runs her small shop to save money for the future. "We don't have plans," she says. "We don't know where we will...
...Conway says that boosting the levels of these bacteria has a variety of benefits: "Seventy per cent of your immune system is localized in your intestine, and intestinal bacteria trigger the immune system." The wrong balance among species can cause or aggravate flatulence, diarrhea, constipation, infections, cancers, and conditions like irritable bowel syndrome...