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...good metaphor," says Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen's founder. Some call it venture philanthropy, but Novogratz prefers the phrase "private equity for the poor." What that means is that a small company in India gets a $185,000 loan to make and sell affordable water filters. And that a Pakistani firm receives more than $260,000 in grants and loans to develop housing for urban squatters. All told, since its start in 2001, Acumen has raised more than $24 million from private donors and corporations and has invested in 16 projects in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt and Tanzania...
...Memory of Her Face,” Sarah K. Howard ’07, Manisha Munshi ’06, and Alexandra C. Palma ’08 spoke about civilian victims of America’s bombings in Iraq. In particular, they mentioned the cases of a Pakistani woman whose husband threw acid on her face. (According to Ensler, 90 percent of these female civilian victims of war die, and no lawsuits have yet been brought.) They further spotlighted the many hundreds of mutilated victims (all women) of a series of murders in Mexico that are suspected...
...ESTABLISHED. BUS SERVICE between Srinagar, on the Indian side of the divided Kashmir region, and Muzaffarabad, on the Pakistani side; in Islamabad. The route, agreed upon during the first visit to Pakistan in 15 years by an Indian foreign minister, will open on April 7. It is the first to cross Kashmir's Line of Control since the region was divided...
...intelligence made that view seem dangerously naive. If North Korea was producing enough UF6 to export to Libya, it surely had enough for its weapons labs at home. There is some evidence that North Korea sold its UF6 not directly to Libya but via the black-market bazaar of Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. That means that North Korea may not have known where its UF6 was going when it sold it, says Gordon Flake, a North Korea analyst at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. The new UF6 evidence was apparently strong enough to help the two NSC aides, Michael...
...Khan's former aides says. "The hardware is still available, and the network hasn't stopped." A recent probe of Khan's lab found that 16 cylinders of uranium hexafluoride gas, a critical ingredient for uranium enrichment, are missing, sources close to the lab say. And a Pakistani official says some in Islamabad are vexed that the Swiss and German governments, among others, have failed to arrest individuals implicated by Khan's testimony...