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Sitting in a brightly lit classroom at the Stanford Business School three years ago, Matt Scott got to wondering what it would take to light the rest of the world. Artificial lighting may not seem a necessity like food or shelter, but 1.6 billion people around the globe lack access to electricity and the on-off switches we take for granted. Inspired by the Light Up the World Foundation, which promotes the use of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Scott, now 31, traveled to India and in 2004 partnered with Amit Chugh to devise a market strategy for replacing...
...Read more at time.com/robertepstein London Fog Judging from the published letters that were critical of the European Union [April 16], many British do not feel European and still live in the atmosphere symbolized by that famous headline: fog on the channel; continent isolated. When people criticize the supposed lack of democracy with which the E.U. rules are instituted, they forget that those rules must be approved by the European Council, composed of elected ministers representing all the member countries. The problem is that, in many countries, a politician is used to saying "I decided it" when a measure...
...illness-as-punchline remains an all too common occurrence in our otherwise hyper-P.C. environment. Straight people don’t say, “That’s so gay” because they understand why it might be hurtful; but knowledge about mental illness is often lacking and misinformed, and many underestimate (or fail to consider) the severity of mental illness and the grief that jokes at its expense may cause. The Harvard community should be commended for the sensitivity and support it has shown to students who have partaken in mental health-related activities over...
Mental illness isn’t funny, and neither is the problem of those who claim it is. We can’t make mental illness go away, but a lack of sensitivity to the suffering it causes is both inexcusable and highly avoidable...
...band’s lack of activity since the release of its third album in 2003, Jenkins explained that he had felt unable to produce anything for awhile...