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Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the honor on Berwick, a leading authority on health care quality and improvement, for his efforts to help reform Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) since the mid-1990s...
...looming. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently warned that North Korea, a country where U.N. agencies estimate that more than a third of young children are chronically malnourished, could be on the brink of another deadly food shortage. Food aid has propped up the North since the mid-1990s, when famine killed between 1 million and 3 million people. But major contributors, including the U.S. and Japan, are reluctant to keep feeding North Korea while Kim refuses to relinquish his nuclear arsenal. The WFP is trying to provide for 6.5 million people in the country, says Richard Ragan...
Jones Professor of Economics Andrei N. Shleifer ’82 has been embroiled in an ongoing lawsuit with the federal government stemming from his mid-1990s work privatizing the post-Soviet Russian economy...
...phone with battery life as long as 500 hours (for villagers without regular electricity) and an extra-loud volume for use in noisy markets. The poor need innovative models of financing too. When cement supplier Cemex, based in Monterrey, Mexico, was looking to kick-start sales after Mexico's mid-1990s financial crisis, it founded Patrimonio Hoy, a combination builder's "club" and financing plan that targets homeowners who make less than $5 a day. It recruited 510 promoters to persuade new customers to commit to building additions to their homes. The customers paid Cemex $11.50 a week and received...
What he apparently hadn't imagined was that the Spokesman-Review's editors wanted to know too. Prompted by rumors of West's homosexuality (a five-year marriage ended in divorce in the mid-1990s) and a tip about his alleged predilection for boys, the paper had months earlier begun investigating his personal life. The results of that probe, which culminated in a controversial Internet sting operation, landed on Spokane's collective doorstep on May 5 like a paper bomb. "For a quarter-century," the report began, "the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public...