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...pieces of Gulag-era art, tracking them down in hiding places all over the Soviet Union and smuggling them to his desert sanctuary. Today, this trove can be experienced for a $4 entrance fee - or rather a fragment can, because there is no space to display it all. (Another fraction can be viewed at the museum's old premises nearby.) Ironically, it turned out that Savitsky had less to fear from the authorities - who came to know of his work but turned a blind eye - than he did from the art he was saving. The harsh chemicals he used...
What really excites Tata is his ability to combine the group's philanthropic heritage with modern business sense. Targeting the bottom of the income pyramid ticks both boxes. Tata points out that consumption, as it is understood in the West, is still a dream for all but a fraction of 3 billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to New Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers out of people whose disposable income...
Moreover, this argument has much broader potential consequences, because, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s studies of worldwide abortion rates, only a small fraction of abortions occur despite consistent birth control use (i.e. the pregnancies come as a complete surprise to the women involved). Thus, only these abortions cannot be prevented by morally acceptable methods such as steady contraception or, in emergency cases, implantation-preventing medication. And, as reproductive science continues to improve, both in the detection and control of fertilization, these remaining ethical concerns surrounding unwanted pregnancy may soon cease to exist altogether...
Diarrheal diseases are the second leading killer of young children in the developing world, but a simple remedy costs a tiny fraction of medications for big-name illnesses. Our report on the challenges of delivering treatment prompted readers to lament the lack of clean water and the abundance of human beings...
...world in which we live: for example, that our planet is an undistinguished speck in an inconceivably vast cosmos; that all the hope and ingenuity in the world can’t create energy or use it without loss; that our species has existed for a tiny fraction of the history of the earth; that humans are primates; that the mind is the activity of an organ that runs by physiological processes; that there are methods for ascertaining the truth that can force us to conclusions which violate common sense, sometimes radically so at scales very large and very small...