Word: millennium
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...breastfeeding laws target corporate practices like sponsoring maternity-related events, giving out formula samples to new mothers, and indicating on labels and advertising that their products make babies smarter. "Breastfeeding can save the lives of both mothers and infants. It may be the single most important intervention for promoting Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 [reducing child mortality and improving maternal health]," says Grace Agrasada, professor of pediatrics at the University of the Philippines, Manila, and the country's first International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (Henares-Esguerra is the second...
...plan works, it'll help the U.N. out of a dilemma of its own making. Back in 2000, the U.N. agreed on a set of lofty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals that aimed to lift African nations and other poor countries out of their cycles of poverty, illiteracy and disease by 2015. But of the $150 billion development assistance pledged by governments, just $104 billion has been provided. Douste-Blazy believes that only individual philanthropy will be able to make up the shortfall. "The architecture of development is changing," Douste-Blazy tells TIME. (Read "U.N. War Crimes Allegation...
...world financial crisis has made such change a necessity, says Bjorn Skogno, a senior official in the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, who is a board member of the Millennium Foundation, the entity set up by UNITAID to collect and distribute the private donations. Overseas development aid "is likely to go down because of the crisis, so there's a need to be innovative to find new sources of funds," Skogno says...
...early minutes of New Years Day, at the turn of the millennium, while most New Yorkers were partying or panicking about Y2K and its accompanying Armageddon, 150 coked-out people in orange jumpsuits came tumbling out of a Manhattan warehouse, breathing fresh air for the first time in months. These individuals were living their last hours under 24-hour surveillance in an underground bunker—complete with shooting range, communal showers, and bedroom cubicles. Behind this “social experiment”—entitled “Quiet: We Live in Public?...
...running to join them as fast as people had been running to join the bunker,” Timoner recalls. “I’m glad we didn’t put the movie out back then.” As the first decade of the new millennium draws to a close, Harris’ experiments as captured in “We Live in Public” force the audience to pause and consider the bluescreen cubicles we now occupy...