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...York to New York, by way of America,” Matt had said when the guy in the Penn shirt asked what they were doing in Nashville. The truth is, the exact details depend on whom...
...have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father bought some 20 years ago in the hope of curing a skin disease. With the meat now selling at an exorbitant $100 a kilogram, Wei, a journalist, must depend on others to indulge his taste for the exotic. He got lucky in January when he attended a dinner thrown by an executive at a large state-owned company. "They steamed the pangolin with boiled mineral water instead of normal water," he recalls. "The meat tasted really fresh, light...
...would be looking back on a remarkable year of growth. The founder and chairman of the charity Room to Read, Wood and his associates have doubled the number of schools and libraries Room to Read sets up in underprivileged Asian countries to nearly 2,200. Success doesn't depend on throwing money at the problem. Instead, Wood seeks to make the community a stakeholder by encouraging local contributions. For example, in Nepal, families brought 50-kg bags of grain which were sold off, raising $1,500 to add to Room to Read's $8,000. Wood, 41, a former Microsoft...
...roughly 60,000 federally funded private-school placements. Finn, an Assistant Education Secretary under Ronald Reagan, approves of it as "compassionate and constitutional." Andrew Rotherham, a co-director of a think tank called the Education Sector and a former Clinton education adviser, says the proposal's eventual legitimacy may depend on details Spellings has not yet made available. "As a temporary initiative to help families in exceptional circumstances, it's reasonable," he says. "But if they use this disaster as a beachhead to establish a longstanding voucher program in the Gulf [Coast] region, it would be wildly inappropriate...
Well, the decision will depend on the circumstances...