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Last week, a book of startling black-and-white portraits arrived on the desks of 25,000 of the most influential people of the world. Recipients?among them heads of state such as Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair?were confronted by images of the world's poorest human beings, together with fragments of lyrics from a song. On the back cover, readers were directed to an elegant website?www.first8.org?on which can be found the United Nations' eight goals (drafted at the 2000 Millennium Summit) to end extreme poverty...
...hospital for $85,300. The filings also showed that Phoebe had more than $300 million in net assets and reported offshore entities in the Cayman Islands worth some $15.5 million. At the same time, Phoebe had sued citizens in the Dougherty County area, one of the nation's poorest, hundreds of times over a five-year span, making the hospital one of the region's most litigious parties. Phoebe garnished the wages of patient Virginia Franklins, 49, even though she made $7 an hour pressing men's dress shirts and had no house or car to her name. After that...
...Chinese right behind them. But the decline of European powers such as Russia and Germany played like melancholy background music throughout the Games. By late Saturday, with one day's competition to go, Germany had just 47 medals - down from Sydney's 56 and Atlanta's 65 - its poorest showing since reunification. Russia may finish second in the overall tally (on Saturday night it had 83 medals), but it lagged in golds, with just 23 through Saturday, nine fewer than in Sydney. Athens looks likely to be the first Games since Helsinki in 1952, when the USSR first competed...
...money left over to help the poor. Ten years ago, 31% of the national budget was spent on economic-development programs such as school and road construction. That figure fell to 19% in 2003. At the Pasay East High School, a dilapidated two-story building in one of the poorest districts of Manila, 5,000 students share just 34 classrooms and books are scarce. Half of the students have to arrive at 5:30 a.m.?with so little space, the school runs classes in two shifts each day. "I see no hope ahead," laments Juanita Hizbola, head of the social...
...from malaria. But doctors estimate that hundreds of millions of people could be spared the illness and the mortality rate could be cut in half. The catch: although astonishingly inexpensive (at least by the industrial world's standards), an effective response is still beyond the financial resources of the poorest nations of the world, particularly those in Africa. There simply can be no progress without help from the developed world...