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...stars the “McDreamy” Patrick Dempsey and the plain-in-comparison Michelle Monaghan (“Gone Baby Gone”) as two friends—the womanizing Tom and innocent Hannah, respectively. The two meet in college at Cornell—a poor beginning, in my opinion. Ten years later, Tom is the rich inventor of the “coffee collar” and Hannah works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and they’re still best friends. But then Hannah suddenly travels to Scotland on business for six weeks, and during...
...growers, she speaks of apple subsidies. At a North Carolina train station, she promises high-speed rail. In southern Indiana, she talks up clean coal. She tells college kids that she will get them lower student loan rates, the sick that she will provide universal health care, and the poor that they will be favored more in the tax code. She even promises new federally funded scientific breakthroughs to cure afflictions like diabetes and autism...
...diverse backgrounds “weren’t obstacles.” “I’d go into random tents—the American tents, the Indonesian tents, the South African tents—and it didn’t matter if they were poor or rich, people would invite me to eat,” he said. The study’s authors echoed Cajee’s personal experiences. “Social distance isn’t as large as you thought on Hajj, and maybe that’s the learning...
...Cleaning up after a catastrophe is hard work in any country - witness the debacle that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. But few places are less prepared than the isolated, desperately poor nation of 53 million that is Burma. Ruled by a clique of reclusive generals since 1962, Burma, also known as Myanmar, has degenerated from a resource-rich country that upon independence from the British 60 years ago was hailed as a model for modern Asia into an economic disaster zone. So paranoid are members of the junta about any outside influence that in recent years they have severely...
Disease outbreaks spread by mosquitoes, dirty water and poor sanitation were among the World Health Organization's biggest concerns after a devastating cyclone hit Burma, home to one of the world's shoddiest health care systems...