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Every day 30,000 children die around the world of preventable causes. Even a modest amount—$50 or $75 per person—would do wonders to reduce these needless deaths. It’s cheap, it’s moral, and it can make a tremendous difference for millions...
Craig Newmark runs his empire from the first-floor parlor of a tidy Victorian-style flat in San Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place...
...dead body of Muntaha Keithem. The plump, brassy 40-year-old war widow has sent her family's AK-47 assault rifle to be repaired, and fully intends to use it to defend Iraq's capital. As she contemplates deadly gun battles in the streets around her brother's modest two-story home in the middle-class suburb of Bayaa, her leonine eyes blaze fiercely and she throws back her head to thrust out a defiant jaw. "The Americans should be warned that Iraqi women know how to fight and die as well as our men," she says. "We will...
Sokurov, though he insists upon the modest nature of his project, clearly intends his film to function on the level of national myth, international wonder, and cinematic miracle. He casts The Hermitage as the biblical “ark” in which the filmmaker travels through time, history and heritage...
...You’ve heard of the Fallbacks?” its members ask, laughing incredulously. The newest addition to the a cappella circuit may well be modest: its members met while unsuccessfully auditioning for Harvard’s established a cappella groups last fall. Still, they were eager to continue singing, and thus the Fallbacks were born...