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...globalization has both blurred the boundaries between nations and given a substantial international role to those giant companies for whom such boundaries make little sense. In today's world, individuals can be as influential as nations; future historians may consider the support for public health of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to be more noteworthy than last week's United Nations conference on aids. And a whole raft of institutions are premised on the assumption that intervention in the internal affairs of others is often desirable. Were that not the case, Slobodan Milosevic would not have been surrendered last...
Amid the frenzy, a cottage industry of fungus busters, mold lawyers and support groups is growing. On June 4 a jury found that Farmers Insurance should pay Melinda Ballard of Dripping Springs, Texas, $32 million for mold damage to her 22-room, hilltop mansion and for her ensuing mental anguish. In May the Delaware Supreme Court upheld a $1 million jury award to Elizabeth Stroot of Wilmington, Del., who claimed that moldy water leaking into the bathroom of her apartment aggravated her asthma and caused cognitive disorders...
...chest for fighting the disease has so far attracted pledges of only $528 million - a little over five percent of its projected target, and that's after donations from the world's richest country (the Bush administration pledged $200 million) and the world's richest man (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised $100 million...
...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donates $25 million to Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Center for International Development for an Aids research and prevention program in Nigeria. The grant is the largest in HSPH history; the money will support the Nigerian AIDS Prevention Initiative...
...issue of AIDS in Africa has also been taken up by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. Last month, President Bush pledged $200 million for a global trust fund to fight AIDS. Congress budgeted $460 million for global AIDS programs this year...