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...Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa, sits in an arid valley among the mountains of KwaZulu-Natal. Occupying a dozen or so tin-roofed, low-slung buildings, the hospital serves its rural patients well: Women come to have babies, H.I.V. patients register to receive their medications, and those infected with tuberculosis check in for a chance to recover from an ancient scourge...
...Thousands of Indians like the Reges are having similar doubts. Just as credit-happy Americans are being brought low by a housing-market meltdown and slowing economic growth, so too are Indians learning the downside of personal debt. Over the past five years, Indian banks, finance companies and retailers introduced a Western-style banquet of financial products to the country's rising middle class, whose members began tapping credit cards, consumer loans and installment plans to buy automobiles, washing machines, vacations - all those trappings of upward mobility that the few who could afford them once proudly purchased with cash...
...Washington Low Marks for Nursing Homes More than 90% of nursing homes have been deficient in meeting one or more federal requirements, and the worst offenders were for-profit facilities, according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report, which spanned 2005 to 2007 and covered some 15,000 homes, said about a quarter provided a "substandard quality of care." In Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington, D.C., 100% of homes had deficiencies. The lowest rate was in Rhode Island...
...this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life drama Bella. "But do you know any filmmakers who would make them or studios that would release them?" McEveety eventually secured a release for Carol in more than 2,000 theaters in the U.S. through Vivendi, a French firm that is expanding from...
...been expected to go on to a career-length succession of wild and crazy schemes. But lurking within him was a closet classicist. That became obvious in 1987 with the opening of his Menil Collection in Houston--another startling building, but this one startling in its simplicity. A subdued, low-rise museum, the Menil is a machine for delivering light, which it coaxes indoors in just the right amounts through an ingenious roof system of louvers...