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...Thursday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced a remarkable new program designed to help developing countries clear two major obstacles to AIDS treatment: the high cost of antiretroviral drugs, and the low quality of the countries' health-care systems. The Clinton Foundation has so far signed up four generic-drug companies and helped them cut production costs, reducing by one-third the price of AIDS -fighting drugs. The firms - three in India and one in South Africa - will still profit because of the high volume guaranteed by the Foundation, which is working with Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania (which...
...Cons: Generic and impersonal. Right on Soldiers’ Field Road...
...first one came around October, in a box from amazon.com, with a note from my father—something generic, along the lines of “I thought you might find this interesting.” The title was Finding God at Harvard. I remember being vaguely surprised that someone had written a book on such a specific order of spiritual quest, but my thoughts didn’t extend far beyond that. Then, around November came The Search for God at Harvard, evidently the book that predated and inspired Finding God at Harvard. Christmas brought me a copy...
...hero of You Look Nice Today is Robert Harbert, "Harb" to his pals. Harb is executive vice president of corporate process and procedure at the Global Fiduciary Trust Co., and he's a relatively generic specimen of the common suit: 44, nice guy, weak chin, happily married. Harb's troubles begin when he hires an attractive assistant named CaroleAnne. Over the next few years, it emerges that CaroleAnne, while quite good at her job, is in fact a nutcase. Even though Harb heaps raises and promotions on her, she becomes increasingly paranoid and hostile, and finally she quits and sues...
South Africa, with the most HIV positive citizens of any nation, is the undisputed ground-zero of the global AIDS crisis. In 2001, seeking to acquire cheaper generic versions of d4T in order to treat dying South Africans, the Nobel Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders requested that Yale act in conjunction with BMS to drop its patent protection in the country. But Yale wouldn’t budge; at least not until a group of Yale students began to mobilize around the issue, mounting a stubborn media campaign to shame the university and BMS. Eventually the students prevailed...