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...health impact on the region is shocking. A daily passenger train that runs from Bathinder to Bikaner in neighboring Rajasthan is nicknamed the "Cancer Express" because it routinely fills a dozen cars with patients and their attendants on their way to a charitable hospital. Despite the high incidence of cancer, there is no government-run cancer hospital in the Malwa region, although the government announced plans to build one last year. "Officials sometimes visit our village, but they never seem to do anything," says Santosh, a 35-year-old resident of Jhajjal who was diagnosed with leukemia three years back...
...sign up. That's hardly insidious--as anyone with a gym membership can tell you--but it does flick at the concern that lenders might start driving demand. And now Mibanco is contemplating an ipo. "We have two objectives," says Llosa. "One of them is to have a social impact, but we also look to be profitable. If we decide to only have a social impact, we won't have resources to grow...
...this argument with moviegoers about the relative merits of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, resulting, as you've no doubt heard, in the complete commercial failure of all Spielberg movies. But if scathing reviews haven't had an effect on listeners, they do seem to have had an impact on Coldplay...
...close") or name a track Death and All His Friends than craft a thought about absence and let the listener figure it out. After four albums, it might also be time to stop thinking of Martin as a great rock singer. His voice--high, sweet, pretty--has emotional impact but not much thematic range. Singing about the afterlife, he's as spooky as Casper...
...easy, of course, to get caught up in the marvels of engineering and its transformative impact. After all, the launch of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) last September was intended to celebrate Harvard’s recognition of the importance of engineering and applied sciences—from advancing knowledge to meeting human needs to enhancing prosperity to ensuring sustainability...