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...shade tree beside a mosque. This was a crucial moment: would the elders allow us to sail upriver, or would they grab all the aid for themselves? Mueenuddin made his case eloquently. A few supplies were dropped off, and I saw a line of men like ants hefting 30-kg sacks of flour up a near-vertical mountain. Said Mueenuddin: "I told them we didn't have many supplies, and this had to go to the most needy?the women and children. The jirga understood...
...mountaineer Miura, every day brings a fresh challenge. In between planning trips to the top of Everest, he operates a high-tech alpine training center in Tokyo and works out daily, walking nearly everywhere with more than 20 kg of weight strapped to his back and ankles?even if he's coming home from a drinking party in Ginza. "It's good exercise, and I get sober," he says. Miura's enthusiasm for vigorous activity isn't rare among Japanese, who have the longest life spans in the world. Seniors there regularly break records. In 2002, Tamae Watanabe became...
...number of schools and libraries Room to Read sets up in underprivileged Asian countries to nearly 2,200. Success doesn't depend on throwing money at the problem. Instead, Wood seeks to make the community a stakeholder by encouraging local contributions. For example, in Nepal, families brought 50-kg bags of grain which were sold off, raising $1,500 to add to Room to Read's $8,000. Wood, 41, a former Microsoft executive, combines the passion of a crusader with the calculation?and ambition?of a CEO. The lofty goal: 20,000 schools and libraries worldwide by 2020. Says...
...half of his appearances trying to explain "pah-point" (Power Point) presentations to the Luddite professor. More striking is Smith's ability to make her motley cast so much more than the caricatures they could become. Belsey's formidable African-American wife Kiki looms large. Her much-discussed 115-kg frame, once much smaller, practically becomes a character in and of itself. She is generally a warm, charming woman, but when angered, she reverts to her roots and, in her children's words, "comes over all Florida" (a Belseyism for going postal). In another work she might be reduced...
...says Williams, a product-development consultant with his own firm, Dissigno, in San Francisco. After eons of number crunching, he hit on the right formula and built a prototype. It isn't very efficient; his device uses 35 times as much energy as an electric fridge to make 1 kg of ice. But its simplicity could yield a killer app in Third World villages, where Williams hopes aid groups will distribute his icemaker as an economic-development tool. He aims to field-test it in Haiti later this year. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Matt Smith/New York