Word: likelies
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...have a "God-willing mentality" that "delays progress for all routine and major actions," U.S. Army Colonel Scot Mackenzie wrote in a study for the Army War College last year. Information is power, and senior leaders hold on to it tightly. They prefer faxes to e-mails because they like "paper in their hands, as opposed to data on a disk," Mackenzie said. Such tendencies freeze "subordinates into doing nothing until specifically ordered," he added. "Taking risk or initiative has historically been seen as a good way to wind up in prison or dead...
...couldn't get through the day. I felt like everyone else had forgotten about it. I was resentful. Lonely." -Describing her "massive breakdown" about two years after the Sept. 11 attacks (New York Times...
...That's a goal shared by the global health community. But officials at organizations like Doctors Without Borders warn that HIV/AIDS is still an emergency for many countries. South Africa, for example, has the world's largest population of HIV-positive individuals and yet has only recently begun to address the problem. "They were quite slow in scaling up treatments," says Emi MacLean, U.S. director of the Doctors Without Borders Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. The country's former President, Thabo Mbeki, was a skeptic about AIDS research and refused to make antiretroviral treatment (ART) widely available...
...funding for the current fiscal year, the U.S. government's contribution to the Global Fund was flatlined, exacerbating an existing shortfall that threatens its work. A recent paper by Harvard researchers Rochelle Walensky and Daniel Kuritzkes warned that failure to increase HIV/AIDS funding could have serious consequences for countries like South Africa, where only a linear (as opposed to exponential) expansion in the number of people treated with ART would result in 1.2 million avoidable deaths over the next five years...
...Management and Budget, argue that a more effective global health strategy would shift some funding away from PEPfAR to focus on maternal- and child-health programs, which can produce significant results for a lower cost through food and nutrition programs, as well as treatment for so-called opportunistic diseases like malaria and TB. But many global health advocates argue that this approach unnecessarily pits diseases against each other. A Nov. 25 letter to Obama from a group of progressive religious leaders urged him "to ensure funding for these new priorities does not come at the expense of the commitments...