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...Hall of Fame in Toronto, is given to each player of the championship team for 24 hours. The only other journalist ever given the Cup was Rick Reilly of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who took it to a kids' hockey game, an old-age home and a hospital filled with sick children. The only way I was going to a hospital was if Pam Anderson was there recuperating from more breast enlargement surgery...
...returned to my office, where Phil had to make some phone calls. I organized a Foosball tournament in which the winner would get a half hour with the Cup. Two guys from the art department, Ed Gabel and D.W. Pine, took me on. Unfortunately, my usual partner was home sick, so I grabbed Max Smith, a designer who has never played before, is losing his eyesight and is really named Ken. While Ed and D.W. were running up and down the halls with the Cup, I realized I hadn't seen Phil in some time. I considered etching my name...
...leaders to multiply their health budgets and take serious action, and he called on the developed world to donate $7 to 10 billion a year to support their efforts. That kind of money can help stop the new infections (almost 4 million last year in Africa), treat the sick (at $350 per person per year, AIDS drugs are now cheap enough that we can finance them but still too expensive for poor countries to buy for themselves), and help communities support the swelling ranks of AIDS orphans. As did the Global Programme before it, Annan's Global AIDS Trust Fund...
...where more than 2 million adults are HIV-positive), word has begun to spread that help might be on its way. Families that had until recently thought the deaths of mothers and fathers were inescapable are now scrambling to find enough money to buy drugs that can keep the sick alive. Most families in this situation will run out of money after a month, or perhaps two. America can play a role in sustaining their chance at life, and in sustaining the chance for life of a continent. With an amount of money that means almost nothing to our government...
...laptops to the school's server and the Internet. Teachers of everything from science to American history incorporate the Web into lesson plans. Away from school, kids plug their laptops into phone lines to question teachers or online experts about homework, or check cafeteria menus. When students are out sick, their teachers e-mail their missed assignments...