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Harvard students will descend upon Yale for the Harvard-Yale football game in a number of ways this weekend—by shuttle, by car, and even by stretch Cadillac Escalade. As of yesterday evening, all 1,620 seats on the fleet of 30 buses organized by the Undergraduate Council (UC) had been sold, according to Nick E. Huber ’09, vice-chair of the UC’s Campus Life Committee. Huber said the buses had sold out more quickly than they did for the Yale game two years ago, even though there were 100 more seats...
...million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...
...they noticed that the countryside was littered with abandoned motorbikes, left by earlier aid workers who didn't know how to fit an oil filter or tighten a chain. If Mamola and the Colemans could import drivers who could handle the roads and maintain the bikes, a whole fleet of vehicles could be put back to work. "Things all came together," says Andrea...
Over the next few years, the threesome set up pilot programs in Uganda and Gambia, where with the support of Save the Children and the local governments, they helped acquire motorcycles and train riders and technicians. In Lesotho they built a fleet of 47 bikes that delivered health-care services from 1991 to 1996 without a breakdown. By the end of that period, the Colemans were running Riders for Health as an independent organization and had expanded into Ghana and Zimbabwe, where they introduced a motorcycle-and-sidecar combination that can be used as a mini-ambulance and double...
Riders for Health recently expanded into Gambia and 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...