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...approached my local Rotary Club with the idea to give survivors sturdy boxes that contained a 10-person tent, blankets, pans, utensils and a stove that could burn anything from diesel to old paint. Since 2001, we've raised enough money to send 75,000 boxes to more than 100 disaster zones in places like India, Congo and El Salvador...
Almost at once they moved in together in a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they worked on their art in penniless contentment. "We hadn't much money but we were happy," she writes. (Reader, beware--Smith has a weakness for mannered prose.) But poverty is easier to bear when you see everything through the lens of art, when a blue rayon dress is your "East of Eden outfit" and you go to your job in a bookstore dressed all in black like Anna Karina in a Godard movie...
...expected for last year, according to Pembroke Consulting, a Philadelphia distribution and manufacturing consultancy. Plus, an aging population and reform will be extra boons. "In theory, more insured people should mean more drug utilization," says Adam J. Fein, an economist and the founder of Pembroke. "That means more money in the pockets of wholesalers...
...would make a fair bet that I would have said no to such an offer, or I would have charged him some incredible amount of money...
...Rich people spend a lot more money on their own problems, like baldness, than they do to fight malaria...