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...Small businesses and organizations with general emergency plans already in place are one step ahead of the game. "Adding an H1N1 component to our overall plan increased employee awareness of the issue," says Pat Meller, CFO of the nonprofit Philadelphia Foundation. She plans to use the organization's intranet to link to local websites that provide information about vaccination and other preventive measures. One challenge, she says, is getting her mostly 20- and 30-something workforce to take the potential epidemic seriously. "Young people tend to think it won't happen to them, so we're giving everyone...
Late in August, Wikipedia announced that it was reining in its freewheeling ways. In several interviews, including many with TIME, officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that manages Wikipedia, explained that the user-edited online encyclopedia would soon impose restrictions on articles about living people. Under the new policy, anonymous Web editors would still be allowed to freely change biographical Wikipedia entries - but their changes would be made visible to readers only after an experienced Wikipedia volunteer had approved them. The plan, officials explained, would make the world's largest encyclopedia more accurate and fair, and would help prevent...
...Wikipedia's fractured organization. Policy decisions are made by a community of volunteers, and the foundation that runs the site isn't always aware of the specific rules that the group might adopt. When told about Wales' narrower view of the new policy, Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the nonprofit, was surprised. "This is the first I've heard of it," he said in an e-mail. Indeed, even the foundation's blog reported that the restrictions would apply broadly to all entries on living people. It has, like lots of things on Wikipedia, since been amended. (Read "Is Wikipedia...
...public option as a "safety net" plan, without specifying whether such a plan would have to meet the minimum standards for adequate insurance coverage defined elsewhere in health-reform legislation. She also does not specify what entity would evaluate affordability or run her public option, described only as a "nonprofit government corporation." Snowe could bring the amendment before the committee later this week. (See more about health care...
...Lawrence Sheets, Caucasus project director of the nonprofit organization Crisis Group, is skeptical about whether the report will change anything. "Russia has firmly re-established its geopolitical position in the region, so there is almost no prospect of Georgian reunification," he says. Since the cease-fire, Russian troops have effectively sealed the border between South Ossetia and the rest of Georgia, and increased their military presence in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. But while Moscow has recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations, only Nicaragua and Venezuela have followed suit...