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...Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens. In writing The End of Poverty, Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight of the world's poorest people, who number more than 1 billion. As he puts it, "More than 8 million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive." He argues passionately that these deaths would...
Other members of this fashion movement have made the leap to selling their creations. Melissa Dettloff, 26, who lives in rural Brooklyn, Mich., likes to take on improbable projects like deconstructing four pairs of thrift-store jeans and using their parts to construct a new pair. But her specialty, which can be seen on her website, lekkner. com, is turning old T shirts into minidresses, halter tops or zippered hoodie sweatshirts. Dettloff sells her wares online and will make customized versions for customers who send her their favorite, outdated Ts. "I'm not into labels or name-brand clothing," says...
...Harrison’s breakthrough is the similarity between HIV and SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus, and “noticing that this particular construct derived from SIV is stable” enough to yield crystals, whereas “standard HIV constructs are not stable,” said Harrison...
...always flawed yet recognizably human, desperately trying to be themselves and instead destroying everyone around them. The book takes its title from her father's dream house, a fanciful transparent mansion powered by solar energy that he sincerely seems to believe he will one day build. He never does construct his Glass Castle, of course, but we can be grateful and relieved that Walls survived to create hers...
...neighborhood residents successfully blocked Harvard’s attempt to build an art museum on the site. But a ground-breaking deal between Harvard and the city reached in October 2003 allows the University to construct graduate student housing on its two Riverside properties in return for providing a park and affordable housing for city residents...