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...done with Bill and Melinda Gates. By standard principles of foundation management, a $3.5 trillion endowment would have a 5% payout of about $175 billion a year, an amount sufficient to extend basic health care to all in the poorest world; end massive pandemics of AIDS, TB and malaria; jump-start an African Green Revolution; end the digital divide; and address the crying need for safe drinking water for 1 billion people. In short, this billionaires' foundation would be enough to end extreme poverty itself. All in all, it's not a bad gig for men and women who have...
...aside, the reader is intended to gain inspiration and hope from these stories of survival. “People can survive this,” says editor Karolina M. Lempert ’09. By putting these difficult topics into a more public forum, Saturday Night aims to jump-start a campus-wide discussion on sexual assault. “Saturday Night gives these survivors and friends and family affected by sexual assault a chance to share their emotions and their stories anonymously, thus giving them a venue in which to heal,” Homaifar says. While publishing these...
...agenda item during his recent meeting with President George W. Bush. But if Bush was serious when he said "the working poor of Latin America need change," then many feel the U.S. should start helping burgs like Santa Cruz build the kind of small enterprises that can jump-start more viable local economies. "There is too much entrepreneurial ambition in this country that never sees one peso of encouragement," says Roberto Hernandez, 29, whose metal-window-frames business was financed by the Santa Cruz microbank, which is called Xu Nuu Ndavi, or Poor People's Money in Mixtec...
...Harvard-MIT institute announced a $100 million gift this week to create a new center to study psychiatric disease, in a move that backers say will jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The Stanley Medical Research Institute awarded the gift—the largest ever given for psychiatric disease research—to the Broad Institute, a three-year-old joint venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those...
...money when he placed Cutler at the helm of Denver’s offense. Plummer’s inconsistency—and the fact that he’s the sixth-lowest rated passer in all of football—scream for some kind of change to jump-start the offense of a team that’s lost three of its last five.But a change like yanking your quarterback, a guy who led his team to the brink of the Super Bowl last year? It’s not the way to go.Sure, the Broncos have an absolutely stout...