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...does not want to address an issue, it doesn’t have to; there’s no pressure from within, and so special interests turn to referenda. Quite simply, something must be done. One solution is Proposition 77, a ballot measure which will have retired judges draw district lines in an effort to end gerrymandering and reintroduce competition. But while its premise has a lot of promise, Proposition 77 could be a logistical nightmare. It calls for the redistricting to occur before the next congressional election. Those in charge of running state elections say that this is practically...
...Nigeria and diversified its fleet to include refrigerated trucks, minivans and ambulances. Zimbabwe is one of the group's showcase countries, with 1,000 vehicles, each of which is responsible for delivering health care to a region that may contain 20,000 patients. In the country's Binga district alone, deaths from malaria plunged 20% thanks to the ability of motorcycles to deliver mosquito-resistant bed nets and keep health-care workers mobile. As the Colemans have shown, when you keep workers mobile, you keep people alive...
...going to be receptive unless they felt some ownership of it. So he began traveling through remote areas, explaining the benefits of vitamin A and looking for volunteers to help distribute the pills. When he signed someone up, he would return for a follow-up visit, accompanied by the district chief. Shrestha would make a show of asking passersby for directions to the volunteer's home; with the chief in the car, it was clear they must be on some vital business. "Whole families had to feel it was important," Shrestha says...
...center, but these were mostly houses of poor and powerless people, who needless to say were not offered any alternative places to live. Illegal building by the rich and powerful is flourishing - even skyscrapers! A similar pattern is evident in our streets and sidewalks: rebuilt mostly in the business district, while the rest are full of holes, lack drains and are not much more than muddy paths. I fully agree with Rama when he says that his generation was "not prepared for being politicians in a democratic society" - something he has largely proved over the last five years. Arben...
...years as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and four years as the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Fitzgerald has said very little about his personal life or his politics. He is not the kind of lawyer who wants a lot of attention, unusual as that may be. But his record speaks for him. Fitzgerald has a long history of doing exactly as he did in this case. He works harder than God; he can be creative (sometimes controversially so) in his application of the law; and he does not tolerate being lied to. "He comes...