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...shoestring in 1994, two years after he was repatriated to Cambodia from the refugee camps. From the start, their target was TB. The disease takes an estimated 2 million lives a year globally, and Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world, 508 cases per 100,000 people. The tragedy of TB is that it can be cured with a six-to-eight-month series of daily antibiotics, but interrupted treatment can lead to the rise of multi-drug-resistant TB that is far more difficult and expensive to cure. So serious were fears about the spread...
...Saddam get the cash? Starting in 2000, many buyers of Iraqi oil, often using middlemen, deposited a total of $229 million in illegal surcharges--of 10¢ to 30¢ per bbl.--into bank accounts controlled by the Iraqi government. Meanwhile, exporters of food, medicine and other items paid nearly $1.6 billion in kickbacks, often contracted as "inland transportation" or "after-sales service" fees...
...largest foundation helping youth in need; it's given money and advice to more than 60,000 young people to help them start their own businesses. As a kind of charitable entrepreneur, Charles runs 15 other foundations, all but two his own brainchildren, that raise over $190 million per year, employ 1,400 and attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming, alternative medicine and urban planning reforms to make communities more livable. He wants business to be more environmentally...
...TWELVE J. Crew's Tie-of-the-Month club is the perfect answer to the holiday guy-gift conundrum. Recipients will get 12 new ties, one per month, starting in January. For $475 the assortment will include Cambridge ties made of English silk, above, as well as trendier, narrow-width ties in oxfords and plaids...
...inspiring.†Skocpol recalled that Moore conducted class in a “Socratic-totalitarian†manner, cold-calling students and moving on abruptly if he deemed their answers less than satisfactory. Moore was an avid sailor and, according to Walder, would spend around six months per year living alone on his sailboat, which was docked in Maine. Moore was also known to invite his favorite few students to his house to dine with him and his wife, Betty, a few times a year. “He could be very warm and engaging on those occasions...