Word: harnesser
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It was a planner's dream: dams to harness central India's Narmada River. But Medha Patkar, a young, largely self-taught activist, was appalled by the price: huge amounts of land swamped, half a million villagers displaced and a lush river basin ruined. Leading hunger strikes, enduring beatings and...
In the meantime, Microsoft shows no sign that it is relaxing its public relations onslaught. After Gates left Washington, he showed up on TV, the star of his own feel-good ad campaign. "Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could...
He was jailed and tortured for his activities, and on his release he found work at Radio Haiti. Two years later, he bought the station. Jean's mission was to harness the power of the airwaves as an instrument of social change. He introduced two ingredients to his country's...
The goal of social entrepreneurship is to harness individual, family and community strengths to utilize scarce resources in the most beneficial ways. I have always been a person who gets enraged when anyone says that all we need to do for the poor is give them more money. Failing to...
So dazzling are the technological marvels promised by the future that we sometimes tend to lose faith in ourselves. No matter how fast the modems or how great the bandwidth, certain human traits will never change. Men and women will still struggle to understand each other. We will still worry...