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Answers: 1) b: Armitage; 2) Ronald Reagan's; 3) b: Brahms; 4) Vietnam & the APEC summit; 5) d: quail; 6) b: gay marriage; 7) vote; 8) the prophet Muhammad; 9) Berlusconi: b; Koizumi: c; Uribe: a; 10) 12,000; 11) a, b, c & d: all these celebs were arrested in 2006; 12) Crash; 13) a: Britney Spears; 14) c: cervical cancer; 15) c: Zeta; 16) battery; 17) a whale; 18) Duke; 19) Italy; 20) B: the Preakness
...idea sometimes starts out small. In 1974, after earning his Ph.D. in the U.S., Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at Bangladesh's Chittagong University. When a deadly famine struck the country, Yunus, eager to lend a helping hand, paid off the money owed to loan sharks by a group of impoverished villagers struggling to survive; they should repay him, he said, "when they could." Eventually they did, but that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation...
...nearly 7 million Bangladeshis, and boasts a 99% repayment rate. His work over three decades earned him this year's Nobel Peace Prize. "Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty," the Nobel Committee wrote in its citation. "Muhammad Yunus has shown himself to be a leader who has managed to translate visions into practical action for the benefit of millions of people, not only in Bangladesh, but also in many other countries...
...things, no one was interested for years," says Mohamed Ansaruzzaman, head of Grameen's International Program Department. "Now they all want to see what we do-journalists, NGO workers, diplomats." Weeks on, posters of Yunus still dot Dhaka. Reads one big banner, outside a suburban pizzeria: PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD YUNUS: WE ARE PROUD...
...MUHAMMAD YUNUS...