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...risks a fatal infection, but every culture has its own traditions. They cut with a coin for luck in Nepal and a stone in Bolivia, where they think if you use a razor blade the child will grow up to be a thief. There is no one solution to fit all countries, and so the model the Gates Foundation and Bono have embraced pulls in everyone, at every level. Think globally. Act carefully. Prove what works. Then use whatever levers you have to get it done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Samaritans | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...inflationary past behind it. But the department’s brand new buildings, called CGIS Knafel and CGIS South, have doors so heavy that only those aforementioned jocks can wrench them open. Note to the Gov department: rolling boulders to block the doorway would be easier, and they might fit the facade better.Seven: De-creep Cabot House. What do manual elevators and Quadlings have in common? A tendency to get stuck in less-than-ideal places. Combine the two and you’ll recreate the plight of Cabot E-entryway residents and their creepy manual elevators that often...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Christmas Wishlist 2005 | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...very first piece of legislation passed after Australia’s federation in 1901 was the Immigration Retriction Act.” No doubt he read this in one or more secondary sources—it is a claim often made by Australians who like history to fit neatly and to fuel their retrospective moral indignation (without looking at the primary sources). It is true that the Immigration Restriction Act was passed early in 1901, but it was, in fact the 17th act, not the first...

Author: By Helen Irving | Title: Australian Racism And Egalitarianism Misconstrued | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...catalyst for the Dec. 11 gathering was an attack a week earlier on two Cronulla lifeguards by a group of men of Middle Eastern appearance. But local resentment about the behavior of men fitting this description goes back much further. Everyone from surfers to lawyers tells the same story. Lured by the beach from nearby suburbs, these youths are notorious for harassing the local girls. If they're not insulting them, they're hitting on them, sitting uninvited on the girls' towels, following them in the street and refusing to be deterred. "My daughters are always having trouble with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture War on the Beaches | 12/18/2005 | See Source »

...Proxmire constantly tested himself, penning 500 words each day to keep his writing skills in shape and inviting each new intern to march into his office and begin debating him on the topic of the intern's choice, to keep him mentally fit for encounters with constituents back home. I remember walking into his office on a day when he wasn't there and seeing a legal pad on his desk listing more than 50 issues, with a grade beside each one indicating how well he believed he'd mastered it. Proxmire was, not surprisingly, a workaholic, and also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senator William Proxmire: A Personal Appreciation | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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