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...becoming Vice President of Iraq in 1969, at 32, he nationalized the country's oil industry and used the revenues to launch a massive program to modernize the country's infrastructure: roads, bridges, factories, universities, hospitals. By the late 1970s, Iraq was the Middle East's most progressive state--rich, modern and thoroughly secular. A Baghdad political scientist described Saddam to me as "the world's best Vice President--until he became the world's worst President...
...Considering the costs of the nets, medicines and other components of malaria control, a comprehensive program would cost about $4.50 per African at risk, or about $3 billion a year for the whole continent. This is an amount that is too large for Africa but truly tiny for the rich world...
...spiffy two-wheeler. The Secret"is like having the universe as your catalog," says Joe Vitale, who is called a "metaphysician" in the film but whose website bills him as "Mr. Fire" - a marketing consultant with the power to sway consumers with a "hypno-buying trance." "The get-rich-quick parts really bothered me," says Bodhi Tree buyer Harmony Allor . "It's my hope that people won't use creative visualization to obtain wealth for themselves, but in more positive, altruistic ways...
...many novels feel tidy, as if the world were neatly divisible into East and West, good and bad. Absurdistan is not tidy, nor is its hero: grotesquely obese Misha Vainberg, a rich young Russian obsessed with New York City. Misha is trapped (for legal reasons) in his homeland, and his longing--plus vodka--powers this endlessly inventive, lugubriously funny post-Soviet picaresque...
...Speaking to a TIME reporter just seconds before a phone call from Oslo to tell him he had won the Nobel Prize, Yunus, 66, explained that the revolution behind microcredit is the way it upends normal notions of banking. "Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor," he said. "All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out." In his Nobel speech, Yunus made clear his belief that access to credit ought to be a basic human right, and advocated the acceptance of "social businesses"-organizations that are self-sustaining...