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...simple maxim: "The greatest good to the largest number in the shortest time at the least cost." It seems to be working. The company has sold 63,000 pumps in Kenya, Tanzania and Mali and estimates that $45 million in profits and wages has been generated by new, "kick-started" businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moneymaking Water Pump: TOOLS FOR POOR FARMERS | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...cruelest form of torture. To say, “You are not suffering,” to say that your pain is not real is to relegate the reality of the sufferer to the realm of the trivial, the unimportant, or the laughable. Sometimes this torment is deliberate: I kick you and then laugh at you for crying. But in most cases, the willingness to hurt stems from ignorance or a lack of comprehension: I laugh at you because I do not understand...

Author: By Emily R. Kaplan | Title: Other People’s Disease | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...opinion on the conflicting ideas of modern feminism.“There’s the notion that you should celebrate difference, that women are actually better in various ways—the notion that we get from Sex and the City... women who wear five-inch heels and kick ass. Whereas second-generation feminists eschewed high heels as being symbols of patriarchy,” she says.“Now we’re celebrating $600 Jimmy Choos...

Author: By Sophie M. Alexander, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldin Demystifies Gender Economics | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...Express in three shifts, taking on all comers in the style that's traditionally endeared him to reporters more than voters. But he was not actually all that forthcoming, and by today, as a result, he had lost points with his expected constituency just when he is trying to kick-start his flagging campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Media Mob Bites Back | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...saving myself for after marriage,” says Chen, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “Sexual chemistry is such an integral part of a relationship. As Samantha on ‘Sex and the City’ said, ‘you have to kick a car’s tires before buying...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Abstinence: A Choice for Some, A Reality for Others | 4/24/2007 | See Source »

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