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...President-elect Barack Obama's past (or the ongoing Blagojevich scandal), The James hotel in Chicago has a "City of Hope" package. A guide will take you in the hotel's Audi on a tour of the city, including the Hyde Park neighborhood, which the Obamas' called home, and Millennium Park, where Barack Obama acknowledged his election victory and where you can take a spin around the skating rink. Return to the hotel and warm up with hot chocolate in the Lobby Bar. While you sip, the concierge can make reservations at one of the Obamas' favorite restaurants, like Spiaggia...
Each year about 700,000 women in the U.S. get their tubes tied, with the surgeries typically requiring general anesthesia, a hospital stay and a week of recovery. But according to Millennium Research Group, there are plenty of women who are done having kids but don't want to go under the knife. The health-care data firm projects the female-sterilization market will more than triple, from $80 million in 2007 to $245 million, by 2012, as these women opt for quick fixes like Essure that can cost patients as little as a doctor's visit...
...profit.” The group conducted a successful pilot study over the summer in Tanzania, where they worked with local families and experimented with the fuel. Currently, in most African countries, roughly 95 percent of the population is without access to electricity, according to the 2006 World Bank Millennium Goals Report. “Everybody was happy for it because it’s not like the solutions that they have right now that aren’t cost effective,” Sengeh says, noting that kerosene is prohibitively expensive. Microbial fuel cells can last for ten years...
...Kozlowski was arguably the most high-profile executive crook of this millennium, but he had plenty of company, in crime and punishment. The top players at Adelphi Communications and Worldcom were also convicted of fraud, and saddled with imprisonments from 15 to 25 years. These sentences are certainly not insignificant. Yet, when you factor in the possibility for parole, the fates of these criminals seems less bleak—especially in light of their Chinese counterpart...
...nominate the waiting billions. In 2008 the world renewed its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals: its promises to the global billions of poor and disenfranchised. These people are waiting for us to meet our deadline by 2015. They are waiting for us to keep our promises. Let's get our promises back on track so they don't have to wait any longer...