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Alvarado doesn't know which nutrition lessons the mothers began practicing in their homes, but it was clear that they were doing something different. "The people in the health clinics started saying 'We don't see so many sick children from those towns,'" reports Alvarado, now 55. "They bring their children in for vaccines or checkups but not for malnutrition sicknesses...
...tack. Patients received free medication if they signed a contract pledging that they would finish their treatment; friends and family served as co-guarantors. Those in the program received nutritional supplements through the World Food Program. "Our whole approach from the beginning is that no one wants to be sick, no one wants their kid or wife to die," says Goldfeld, who visits the program several times a year from her base at Harvard. "If you give someone the education of how to be well, they'll do it." The World Health Organization was doubtful at first...
Your sister co-stars in your film. What does your family make of your often off-color work? Sometimes my mom, her thing is, "I have a very visual mind." My dad does not have a very visual mind. Either that or he's sick. 'Cause he's fine with...
...often share the bill with puppets. Why is that? I'm trying to get past that! Also I'm the girlfriend before he realizes what love could be. I remember saying "I'm sick of playing the b____." And then I get $1 million to make my own movie and I play a b____. But it's more layered...
...rises and falls with the availability of jobs. Unfortunately, Europeans who start their own businesses are crushed by corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour work week and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving...