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...Their devotion to public service has only increased over the years. Currently, Bono is working on Jubilee 2000 and its Debt Relief Campaign, aimed at convincing the world's eight richest nations to cancel the debt owed by Africa's poorest countries...
...donate a quarter of the needed money. That's the first path. The Bush administration took a hesitant step down the second path last week by announcing its first contribution to the fund: $200 million. As Oxfam has said, the administration left off a zero. If the richest country in world history won't spare a few billion as it cuts taxes by more than a trillion dollars, it will do little to galvanize financial support from other countries and foundations. If students and other concerned citizens do not wish to be complicit in a monstrous crime of omission, they...
...AIDS campaigners slammed the Bush administration for donating only $200 million. President Bush described the grant as "seed money" and said he hoped the governments of other nations, as well as private groups would follow Washington's example. Fiscally disciplined, to be sure, but if the world's richest country puts aside an amount so small relative to its means, the global AIDS war chest is unlikely to come anywhere near its fundraising targets...
...richest nation in the world, $200 million is small change. To put it in perspective, some AIDS activists point out that the U.S. is still planning to spend some $30 to $40 billion on the much-troubled V-22 Osprey troop-carrying helicopter. (In that sense, South Africa may indeed be following Washington's example.) Such dramatics aside, there's clearly a problem here. The wealthy nations want to see fiscal discipline in the developing world as the precondition for aid and investment, and most of the developing world's leaders are happy to oblige. But AIDS is a full...
...this has relevance to the future of the high-tech industry. It's become conventional wisdom that soon more consumers worldwide will access the Internet by mobile phones than by PCs. Well, maybe. But in the U.S., the world's richest market, some of the most popular applications of Internet technology seem singularly unsuited to a mobile phone, even when the much heralded third-generation phones are in common use. A phone's display is never going to be big enough to handle the rich displays of text and graphics of the American news and financial-services sites. And dare...