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...people in Africa or Asia are also those of the West. Trying to solve them means that we will make the world a better place for all of us. Topics like these may not make for easy conversation, but it is the stories of people like Dr. Paul Farmer, whose goal is to provide first-class health care to the poor, and Cynthia Maung, who runs a medical clinic on the dangerous Thailand-Burma border, that give me hope for the future, not the big political visions of the White House. Thank you for giving a voice to those...
...good.' It was just gigantic! You know, Mao would have been so jealous!" Some couples have ballroom dancing. The Gateses have saving the world. And they like to do it the uncomfortable way, by looking straight into lives they know nothing about. Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, has been host to them both in Haiti. "I think they, unlike many people, have allowed themselves to remain open to the pain that a lot of people experience," he says. "Watching them listen, really listen, and wait for the answers and study people's faces and pay attention, I was very...
...leapt into Victoria Harbour, floating just a few hundred meters from the convention center where the talks were being held. It was a peculiar act of protest, but it was brave-the polluted waters of the harbor haven't been safe for swimming in years. "I cannot swim," pear farmer Han Do Sook said later, struggling to explain the politics of his perilous plunge. "But right now, I feel as if the WTO is trying to make me swim without a life vest." A squadron of Koreans did make a break for the convention center later, but were repelled...
...Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) will likely have less clout than the parties of his more conservative rivals such as Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, a former President and IBM executive who currently trails Morales by some six percentage points in recent polls. So Morales - a 46-year-old Aymara Indian farmer who leads Bolivia's coca growers union and narrowly lost the Presidency in 2002 - could win this Sunday but still be snubbed in the Congress next month. That would likely prompt his millions of mostly indigenous followers to turn to what they call "street democracy," as they have done in numerous...
Starbucks Coffee, for instance, in 2004 piloted its own certification program known as Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices. By 2007, the company intends to buy more than half its coffee from a supply chain that independent auditors have inspected. Among the criteria: growers must minimize deforestation and receive "premium" prices, that is, those high enough to turn a profit...