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This week we turn to East Africa, with Karl Taro Greenfeld's story and James Nachtwey's photographs about mother and child mortality in Rwanda. (Nachtwey last week won an Eisie photography award for his image of a Kosovar refugee that ran in TIME last spring.) The continuing tragedy of that African nation is that it cannot even repopulate itself: 1 out of every 9 mothers dies in childbirth--compared with 1 in 4,000 in the U.S.--and 40% of children die before age five. When we developed this story idea, we wanted to ensure it would be supplemented...
...hypnotized at my computer, watching the NASDAQ collapse, when e-mail pops up reminding me of our biweekly company meeting. Eighty or so Keen.com employees gather around our CEO, Karl Jacob. "Well," he says, "we all know what happened in the market today...
...does the market really matter? Karl has one message--Suck it up--and two themes. Theme No. 1: Everything Is Different. The NASDAQ's woes don't affect us directly--we don't have a steady supply of paper clips yet, let alone public stock--but our industry's free ride is clearly over. The men are about to be separated from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, the Yahoos from the yahoos. And--oh, my, Greenspan--we can't go public at the drop of a business plan anymore. "It's going to be much harder under these...
...while we ride out the Web's long, hard winter and emerge the big winner. After all, we aren't just me-too e-commerce hacks; we have a novel business model. We're running trippy TV ads. Hey, we even have revenue! We just have to work hard, Karl insists...
...Maybe the shooting of Amadou Diallo wasn't murder, but certainly a price should be paid for a mistake of such magnitude." KARL NURMI Sudbury...