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...Mukherjee says PIH representatives—including Kim, Farmer’s closest associate—will have a strong advisory role in the WHO’s immediate future...
...Rather than focus on something very simple that would be in-and-out, he asked people there what they really needed,” says Joia Mukherjee, the medical director of Partners in Health (PIH), the non-profit medical organization which Farmer and close colleague Jim Y. Kim founded in 1987. “And they said, ‘We need a hospital, because we’re very ill.’ So he built the hospital...
...challenge for automakers is to keep real consumers in mind. "People who design these things have to realize that the normal passenger doesn't have a degree in computer science," says Kim Vicente, director of the University of Toronto's Cognitive Engineering Laboratory. "Most of us don't care about computers. We just want to drive." And have a little fun while we're at it. --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...post-Saddam strategic reality would likely increase the temptation for Iran to go nuclear - a cursory glance at the fates of Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Jong-il would certainly help any hard-liner trying to argue the virtues of a nuclear deterrent. But if such a program exists, it would be conducted under extensive camouflage, for the Iraq example also proves that there's nothing like an alleged WMD program to make a case for regime-change...
...scientist wasn't the only one ratting out Kim Jong Il last week. Two North Korean defectors, wearing hoods to protect their identity, appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee and described how the dictator bankrolls his weapons programs by making and exporting narcotics. One of the defectors, who said he was a high-ranking government official for more than 15 years before sneaking out of the country in 1998, said the cash-strapped government began developing poppy plantations in the late 1980s; in 1997, all collective farms were ordered to devote at least 25 acres to the cultivation of opium...