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Soon after Kasper Salto started his career as a furniture designer, he happened to be on the set of a photo shoot. Relaxing during a break, he picked up a light filter and began scrunching the plastic to make various shapes. Intrigued, Salto realized the filter could be curved in two directions at once. After three months experimentation with wood in a workshop, the plastic filter inspired the Runner chair, a wood and steel classic that is already a best seller...
...hopes that the Vatican might open its long-secret archives to those researching Pope Pius XII's role in World War II and the Holocaust vanished last week--perhaps for years to come. A church-initiated joint Catholic-Jewish historical committee disbanded after receiving a letter from Walter Cardinal Kasper, president of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, saying that access to the archives was not possible "for technical reasons." The real reason, however, was probably anger. The committee, formed in 1999, was officially charged with reviewing 11 volumes culled from the archives between...
...Where are the developing countries in all this?" asked Toby B. Kasper `97, coordinator for Doctors Without Borders' Access to Essential Medicines campaign in South Africa. "Even when South Africa is offered free drugs, it routinely says, 'Why weren't we consulted in the development of this plan? Why are we being told how to run our health care?' And I think that's understandable...
...Kasper also pointed to generic drug companies as crucial in the fight. "The fact that the multinationals are suing is a problem," he said. "Unless competition is sustained, things will go back to the way they were before. No solution can be based solely on the multinationals doing the right thing. We need generic companies to be there, and developing countries want them there. They don't want to rely on the whims of multinationals, whose bottom line is the bottom line...
...Kasper told The Boston Globe. "The goal [in reviewing...