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...heroes from around the world who fight diseases in the poorest countries. The selection was impressive. Since I'm working on a Ph.D. in molecular biology, I wish you had included someone doing not just clinical but basic biological research on deadly diseases. The interview with Bill and Melinda Gates indicated that very little is being done by governments to help create drugs for diseases in poor countries, which makes me curious about what is happening. Bill Gates has been celebrated as a philanthropist. Isn't it time to call him a hero too? Claes Molin Gothenburg, Sweden Celebrating Arab...
According to Melinda S. Rodriguez ’07, this freedom of choice creates a relaxed atmosphere where “you can paint anything you want.” Lydia C. Conklin ’06 agrees, adding that the class’s structure allows the students to be on their own personal schedules and paint according to their interests, as mutable as they...
...million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has created a new fellowship program in global health reporting at Harvard. “We hope that it will educate a group of journalists to be able to report authoritatively and consistently on issues of global health, and that, as a consequence of their work, readers, viewers, and listeners will become better informed about the critical nature of disease,” said Nieman Foundation Curator Robert H. Giles. Starting in the 2006-2007 academic year, three journalists will be chosen annually as Nieman Global Health Fellows. The three fellows?...
...ZAMBIA Public health officials will be watching Zambia closely over the next few years. With a $35 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the country has launched Africa's first nationwide antimalaria initiative, with a three-year plan to get bed nets, medicines and indoor insecticides to 80% of the population. The goal is to reduce deaths from malaria 75% and to show the rest of the world--including donor countries-- that malaria can be contained using low-cost tools that are readily available...
...Bill Gates: "Here is a man brought up with middle-class values, and he chooses to spend his wealth not nurturing selfish dreams and desires but working to ensure that even the poorest people will have their basic medical needs met." Wrote a Seoul reader: "Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates are remarkable individuals with a clear vision of how to make a quantum difference. This is not about giving money but about having an inspirational effect on others." A Kathmandu journalist praised the interview with Bill and Melinda Gates as "one of the best I've ever read...