Word: hac
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...there is another Macau, one the high rollers never visit, that sounds plaintive rather than prosperous. Take a taxi from the dancing fountains in front of the Wynn Macau hotel to the working-class neighborhood of Hac Sa Wan, where you can meet Ng Iat-keong, one of the many poor Macanese for whom the casino boom has been a bust. Ng, 45, is a construction worker who helped build some of Macau's hotel-casinos, including the biggest of them all, Las Vegas Sands' giant Venetian. Yet the money sloshing around in their plush suites hasn't found...
...what she does “saving the world,” she winces. “I don’t think I’ve saved any lives in my time here,” she says. Such humility, according to friend and fellow Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) member Matthew F. Basilico ’08, is characteristic of Connie E. Chen ’08—and perhaps misleading. A snapshot of Chen’s resume reveals a person of Herculean capabilities: a Detur Book Prize winner, John Harvard Scholar, pre-med econ major interviewing...
...care for the poor. Kim’s talk, entitled “Missing Medicines: Making University Drugs Accessible to the Global Poor,” was sponsored by over a dozen groups including the Harvard chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC). The event was part of a UAEM National Day of Action to raise awareness about the connection between university research and global health. To illustrate the impact students can have on drug affordability, Kim discussed the student activism that led to the launch of UAEM. In the early 1990s, Yale...
...dirty look, so we buzz off. Our options dwindling, we decide to call off our search. Perhaps we should have followed the lead of Nippon Television's Norihisa Kabaya, whom we had run into earlier that morning. He was patrolling a boardwalk near the black sand of Hac Sa beach, video camera rolling while his translator waved a blown-up photograph of the smiling Kim Jong Nam. "Have you seen this man?" the translator asked us. We have, but only in pictures...
...chair by JM Ferrero for Estudi Hac Intended for the garden, Ferrero's JPN chair, which debuted at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair, shouldn't languish in the shed during winter months. With an elegant metal form and geometric flower pattern created by the Valencia-based designer for his own brand, it deserves to be round the kitchen table. estudihac.com...