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...Western-trained physician who has practiced even briefly in a poor country is acutely aware of how inequitably money and medical care are distributed in the world. Farmer, who grew up in a Florida trailer park, has developed what Kidder calls a "comprehensive theory of poverty," which Farmer elaborates on in books that are surprisingly angry for so gentle a man. In Pathologies of Power (2003), his most recent, he argues that the only antidote for the "structural violence" that keeps the poor too sick to climb out of the hole they are in is to treat health care...
...business experts to fit their lives. Each volunteer agrees to work five hours a week on a five-month project with a five-member team, each providing pro bono the same service that he provides for paying clients. Taproot member Candice Laxton, 54, a creative director in Menlo Park, Calif., helped produce a brochure for SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments), an advocacy group for abused women. Laxton is typical of many boomers who, in earlier years, put some of their youthful activism on hold while establishing careers and families. "I'm an old '60s girl," she says. "Then...
...week's special report on global health more than nine months ago. He convened a panel of experts to suggest themes and the best people to profile. More than a dozen journalists, including several who are usually based in New York City, visited 15 countries around the world. Alice Park flew to China. Christine Gorman traveled to South Africa and Zambia...
...very impressed with your report on Asia's heroes [Oct. 10]. Sania Mirza and South Korean soccer star Park Ji Sung have boosted the image of Asian athletes to new heights. Asia has always had great sports stars, but until now, very few managed to steal the limelight from Europe's important athletes. All Asia now identifies the British football club of Manchester United with Park?no mean achievement. And the Indian belle Mirza has taken the tennis world by storm. Subhobrata Basu Kolkata, India...
...Eleven hundred miles away, as he celebrated with his team in Houston's Minute Maid Park, Sox GM Kenny Williams wiped champagne from his eyes and told a reporter that the Sox win "has finally taken a lot of weight off my shoulders." That was an understatement: all of Chicago set down a heavy burden-the weight of 88 years of history. On Thursday morning the city's two daily newspapers both had special issues on newsstands with headlines shouting "Believe It!" and "Champs...