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...global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution. It is not only the responsibility of nations where AIDS is most prevalent or of philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation is assisting India, but it is also the responsibility of every government and person on the planet. It is a problem that cannot be ignored. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to eliminate AIDS and the larger the number of people who will die before their time. We have the money and resources to find a solution, but we lack the willpower. We must not leave...
...Performance of the Week Newly crowned fastest man on the planet ASAFA POWELL, 22, broke the 100-m world record in Athens last week with a 9.77-sec. race. Powell, a Jamaican, shaved one-hundredth of a second off the record, becoming only the fourth non-American since 1912 to lower the mark. Winning on the very track that dealt him a disappointing fifth-place finish in last year's Olympics makes it a doubly sweet success for Powell. Aptly, his African first name means "rising to the occasion...
GELDOF This is a political event, not a cultural event. In order to get political momentum, one guy with a banner is not enough. You need millions. The lingua franca of the planet, as we learned from Live Aid, is not English--it's pop music. From Guangzhou to Bogotá, they listen to 50 Cent, Eminem, U2 and Coldplay. Do they listen to the more esoteric individual cultures? No. That's reality. Do they listen to Muddy Waters? I wish they did. Then I'd put a bill up there with him and John Lee Hooker...
...genomes, from modern chimps and ancient cave bears to microscopic bacteria and viruses. As the cost of sequencing each base pair has dropped, from $10 in 1990 to less than 9˘ in 2002 to 1/10 of 1˘ today, researchers are doing more all the time. Although 99% of the planet's genomes have yet to be decoded, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands if not millions of genes, dwarfing the paltry 24,000 or so we carry...
...Goldman Sachs...is as close to a meritocracy as any company on the planet,” he says. “The ego issues are really set aside in terms of what benefits the group...