Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take Gates' vaccine initiative. It came after months of research into existing immunization programs and meetings with world-health experts, including one gab session at his Medina, Wash., home a few weeks before the gift's unveiling. The cause appealed to him in part because it promised rapid, tangible returns. "The science is proved--it's just a question of driving equal access," says Gates. "It might take 15 years for that to happen. But through this program it can be cut down to as little as five years--and there are millions of lives at stake in the difference...
...last note: the phone number provided for holiday gift subscriptions in last week's issue was incorrect. We apologize for this mistake. The correct number...
...window was about letting people know we have a lot of good gift ideas," Dougan says, "and people come in all the time wanting to know what is in the window...
That means it's time to make my Christmas wish list public. Of course, feel free to send me anything that's not on the list. But make sure your gift is pawn-able, just in case...
When we keep this in mind, writer Mark O'Donnell emerges as a true gift. A humorist and playwright, O'Donnell has mastered the art of conveying the bittersweet. In his first novel, Getting Over Homer, O'Donnell wryly traced a twin's failing quest to find a bond similar to the one he shared with his sibling. In his second novel, Let Nothing You Dismay (Knopf; 193 pages; $22), O'Donnell is once again obsessed with a young man's search for wholeness, and here too the author's witticisms flow felicitously...