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...McPherson cited the development of a malaria vaccine and a new strain of sorghum as examples of the progress international development programs have made...
...Peter McPherson, who heads the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), said improvements in literacy rates, medicine, food supply and contraceptives will bring the countries that are traditionally known as the third world up to the standards of the Western world by the end of the century...
...McPherson said new technology, an understanding of the market economy and a world-wide interest in democratic institutions will help pave the way to "a brighter world, a safer world...
...think the free market and democratic institutions will become the norm, instead of the exception," McPherson said. He said he saw sound economic policies as the key to solving the problems of poverty and famine around the world...
...significantly diminished by such academic brush fires. Notre Dame's Hesburgh attributes Harvard's continuing eminence in part to the strength of Bok's reign. "He certainly has been critical of his own institution," says Hesburgh, "which you can afford to be when you're that good." Mary Patterson McPherson, president of Bryn Mawr, deplores the 1- to-20 ratio of women on Harvard's tenured faculty after a decade of coeducation ("Just deciding to educate girls ain't coeducation in my view," she snaps). Nevertheless, she admires Bok's administrative style. "He's managed to give real leadership...