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...semester after council leaders identified increased diversity as one of their goals, 13 women will assume seats on the 35-person council this year, up from the nine that filled the roster last semester. “I’m really pleased,” said UC Outreach Director Andrea R. Flores ’10, who sought to expand the UC’s candidate pool last month through measures that included a freshman campaign workshop and a panel for women interested in politics. “I think the nature of any representative body that is elected...
...Bush also has a history of overpledging and underdelivering on some of his high-minded promises. His former faith-based outreach chief, David Kuo, has savaged Bush for not sufficiently funding the programs he promoted. Some of Bush's new, unilateral foreign aid programs have drained funds from older, multilateral ones. "He cuts certain programs to fund others," says Senate aide Rieser. "He just cares about his own initiatives." While proposing to boost funding this year for his overseas disease-fighting program, PEPFAR, for example, Bush suggested cutting funding for the U.N.'s Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis...
...responsibility (CSR) programs in the developing world. The U.S. drug industry says it has created 126 health partnerships with governments and aid organizations that have helped up to 539 million people since 2000. Some observers remain cynical, however. They say CSR is mere window dressing - a clinic here, an outreach program there - that does not address the root problem of how to get drugs to the broadest number of people who need them most...
...council also hopes to benefit from increased alumni outreach, according to Petersen, who worked to compile a list of former UC leaders and their contact information this summer...
...video-game makers like Nintendo and Sony, which are designing systems to meet the demand; small companies like Expresso Fitness that donate equipment; and federal grants and private donations that bankroll the purchase of equipment. "The old system is failing kids," says Phil Lawler, director of training and outreach at PE4life, a nonprofit based in Kansas City, Mo., that helps modernize P.E. "We are tricking them into exercising...