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...form of diversification, ranging from contracting out labor and machinery to running a bed-and-breakfast. "It used to be a question of farmers' wives offering rooms on the side, but now for many it's a full-time business," says Nigel Embry, who runs Farm Stay UK, a nonprofit body that publishes a directory of farms that take guests. Dairyland Farm World, a farm-turned-theme-park in southwestern England, has gone down the diversification route. For an entry fee of $40 per family, Dairyland offers a milking parlor and a "pat-a-pet" area...
...reason for hope. Doctors have made remarkable progress over the past few years in the treatment of drug-resistant malaria by combining several compounds--the most powerful of which is derived from an ancient Chinese herbal remedy that cures 90% of patients in three days. Meanwhile, community groups, nonprofit organizations and governments are redoubling efforts to control the mosquitoes that cause the disease through the sale and distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and the indoor spraying of antimosquito pesticides. And after a few notably fiery fits and starts, there appears to be a real consensus among health officials about...
Even the good numbers tell only part of the story. If 88% of kids have adequate health insurance, that means 12%--or a whopping 8.8 million--don't. "There's really no reason for kids not to be covered," says Emil Parker, director of the health division of the nonprofit Children's Defense Fund. "Kids are the least expensive group to cover because they're generally healthy...
...Henan province Chung to, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined...
...college grads from Colorado, known as Paddle for the Presidency, are spending the summer canoeing down the entire Mississippi River. The nonprofit group is making pit stops, hoping to register 10,000 young voters by journey...