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...Hope Zinc could change that. Earlier this year, pilot zinc-treatment programs began in parts of Ethiopia and Tanzania, and several African governments are now looking at zinc programs. The treatment is already stirring interest among rich-country donors and drug companies: about 20 firms in countries from France to India have begun manufacturing zinc tablets during the past few years. "The private sector was never really interested in ORT," Fontaine says. "But zinc has totally taken off. It looks like real medicine and is not given out for free." (See pictures of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

Turns out the terms may have been too rich. Cash for clunkers (the official name is Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save, a.k.a. CARS, but nobody calls it that) had customers scrambling to car dealerships in droves after it went live on July 27. Despite being in effect for only a few days, the program helped drive July auto sales to an annualized rate of 11.2 million vehicles, from just 9.7 million in June. In reaction, Wall Street economists have ratcheted up forecasts for third-quarter economic growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Cash for Clunkers | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...ears and neck stoked my body temperature unbearably, and the pleasurable strain of running gave way to acute discomfort. "How am I going to stay fit here?" I wailed to my Iranian girlfriends, experts in the dilemma of balancing exercise with Islamic modesty codes. They offered me a rich store of advice, from headscarves with ear slits to calibrating outdoor exercise with the seasons to where to find women-only gyms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Work Out While Muslim — and Female | 8/16/2009 | See Source »

...world, may discourage poor students interested in Harvard. "If a student, whether from Los Angeles or Shanghai, goes into a store and sees a Harvard brand name that they can't afford, it's easy to think, 'I can't afford to go to Harvard,' or 'Harvard is for rich people...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Licenses Brand for Preppy Clothing Line | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...always had closer ties to America than other African countries, and with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the first female elected head of state in the continent, it's not surprising Liberia was in Clinton's Africa tour of hotspots like Eastern Congo and strategic partners like to oil-rich Nigeria and Angola. Liberia was founded by freed American slaves in the early 1800s under a corporation called the American Colonization Society. The newcomers set up a social hierarchy similar to the plantation system they were familiar with in the American south. The Americos, as they are still called, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Bolsters Liberia's Embattled President | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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