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That must make it dangerous depending on the guest. Absolutely. But it's not literally dangerous in a real sense. It's not Deadliest Catch or anything. It's just that somebody may get embarrassed. It's pretty much dead set that someone is going to be embarrassed by the end of the show. And if someone really clams up, I just keep talking. I try and help them. It doesn't happen as often as you think cause if you make people comfortable they tend to open up a little...
...World Health Organization and already channels funds to fight disease in poor countries. UNITAID was founded in 2006. Its $400 million annual budget is funded by Britain, France, Norway, Brazil and Chile. Douste-Blazy is now trying to turbo-charge those efforts by bringing in private donations. He's set up a foundation linked to UNITAID that will collect the voluntary airline-ticket levy and distribute it to key players in the field of medical assistance in Africa and elsewhere. Recipients will include the U.N. children's agency UNICEF and the Clinton foundation. As well as targeting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis...
...plan works, it'll help the U.N. out of a dilemma of its own making. Back in 2000, the U.N. agreed on a set of lofty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals that aimed to lift African nations and other poor countries out of their cycles of poverty, illiteracy and disease by 2015. But of the $150 billion development assistance pledged by governments, just $104 billion has been provided. Douste-Blazy believes that only individual philanthropy will be able to make up the shortfall. "The architecture of development is changing," Douste-Blazy tells TIME. (Read "U.N. War Crimes Allegation...
...Medicare Baucus has held down the fiscal impact of his legislation by proposing to cut a hefty $500 billion in Medicare costs. The bill claims to do this by trimming a lot of fat out of the system and setting up an independent, nonpartisan panel that will take away Congress's power to set Medicare payment policies and reimbursement rates. But, most controversially, the bill takes a big chunk of money from the Medicare Advantage program, which essentially subsidizes insurers. "We are committed to working with policymakers and stakeholders to find savings in the Medicare program, including Medicare Advantage...
...seems a global recession has set people's creative spirits alight with fresh ideas," Moncrieff says. But going by previous years, fresh ideas is the one thing the WOW awards are never short of. See www.worldofwearableart.com...