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...Potter book while her baby sleeps, her power has become too great to ignore. You can measure it in the numbers--254 million books sold in 61 languages in 200 countries, earning her an estimated $211 million last year alone, which have made her personal wealth greater than the Queen's. (To spare the whole forests that must be felled to print her books, her next one will be on paper that's either recycled or made from "sustainable forestry practices.") You can measure it in the growing scholarly attention--the books and academic papers and conferences from Adelaide...
...vengefulness. So Pinker draws fire from those who ascribe all ills to the corruption of pristine souls. But evolutionary psychology has a brighter side: love and compassion are also in our genes. Besides, Pinker notes, biology isn't destiny. "Nature," he quotes Katharine Hepburn's character in The African Queen as saying, "is what we were put in this world to rise above...
...cold evening in February 2002, at a fancy dinner in New York City. In walks a drop-dead gorgeous thirtysomething. Senators, CEOs and others to whom deference does not come easily all rise to their feet. This is not just some successful businesswoman or famous actress. This is the Queen...
...Queen Rania, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah, has described the challenge to her country as trying to reconcile tradition with modernity. In Jordan, the issues she champions to bridge this gap include computer skills for schoolchildren, micro loans for women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening...
...Vaccine Fund is an international effort to raise money to immunize children everywhere. So far, thanks at least in part to the Queen's strong endorsement and her role on the board of directors, it has raised $1.3 billion. The life-saving hepatitis-B vaccine has reached 35 million children in 40 of the least developed nations around the world...