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...Chinese officials do not want air pollution to detract from the event. The researchers of the study—which is being published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—are affiliated with the China Project, which is part of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. K. Folkert Boersma, another post-doctoral fellow who worked on the report, stressed the importance of new satellite technologies in collecting data on Beijing’s environment over the three-day period of vehicle restrictions. Because of their precision, the newest satellites could eventually be used to track global pollution, Boersma...
When Melecio Penafiel wanted to expand his tailoring shop in Guayaquil, Ecuador, last May, he didn't go to the bank or ask his relatives for help. His seed money arrived via the Internet. Using the website Kiva.org a Bay Area software engineer named Nathan Folkert lent Penafiel the $500 he needed to buy two new sewing machines, fabrics and thread for higher-quality suits. Folkert has never met Penafiel but says making the loan "felt like I was giving him a shot at the American Dream...
...Folkert is what's known in the philanthropic world as a "microfinancier." Pioneered by last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, microfinance is the making of tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs. Yunus began in 1976, with $27 loans to impoverished farmers, financed from his own pocket. Today about 10,000 microfinance institutions hold more than $7 billion in outstanding loans. As Yunus told TIME last October, "At the rate we're heading, we'll halve total poverty...
Last week the University of California's Dr. Folkert O. Belzer described a machine that, he hopes, will keep kidneys in good condition for as long as three days. About the size of an upright piano, the device contains two Plexiglas cylinders in either of which a kidney may rest on a wire screen. Plasma, fortified with body chemicals and penicillin, is fed to the kidneys' arteries through plastic tubes...
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