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Four years ago on a medical mission, Steven A. Ringer, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, came to the startling realization that babies were dying because Vietnamese hospitals lacked a basic technology...
...Ringer, who makes semiannual trips to Vietnam with a California-based nonprofit called Project Vietnam, says that he and other American doctors were immediately struck by the dearth of respiratory assistance equipment in the country’s neonatal units...
...When we got there, we could see that one of the significant problems is they don’t have much in the way of machines or resources to do respiratory support,” Ringer says. “Needless to say, you can imagine, it was a bit stunning because I knew, if they were in the U.S., how easy it would be” to save the babies’ lives, he adds...
Disregard any stock movement on the heels of bell-ringer news like fraud charges or a new asbestos liability. But modest earnings surprises that cause a stock pair to decouple often present opportunity--a rare commodity in a market going nowhere...
...consisted of six rootless dorks in an office in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Carmack, their programming ringer, was a 23-year-old who had spent a year in juvie and completed exactly two semesters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Carmack is an odd duck: blond, skinny, with a fixed, unblinking gaze and a curious vocal tic--his sentences often end with an involuntary noise that sounds something like Mn! Despite his otherworldly demeanor, he is artlessly charming, although he does not make anything resembling small talk. It's not because he's too busy...