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There is a real risk that billions of dollars from the Gateses, no matter how leveraged, will not be nearly enough to reverse the slip-sliding decline in health in poor countries. There is an equally great risk that they will waste billions of dollars trying. To hedge their bets, they invest not in one malaria treatment, for example, but in many. And they try to stay flexible. After they were criticized for investing too heavily in new inventions, they put more money into distributing fixes that already exist. They also don't scare easily: when it was discovered that...
...side effects of the intelligence failure on Iraq "has been that it has limited your ability to deal with future threats like Iran, like North Korea," Bush began by saying: "Sanger, I hate to admit it, but that's an excellent question." In what may have been a Freudian slip, Bush at one point said "Saddam" for a second before correcting himself to "Osama bin Laden." It came in the course of a story in defense of the domestic surveillance exception that he liked so much, he told it twice. "In the late 1990s," he said, "our government was following...
House: His sexy pants. Concentration: I’m losing mine, just looking at that peachy goodness. Slip off those jeans, baby. Hometown: Who cares? Hot town! Ideal Date: A soft bed and a soft touch. Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Put your back into it. Where to find you on a Saturday night: On soft sheets, if all goes well. First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Peachiness. Your best pick-up line: [Scoop shakes after Lauren slaps him] Best or worst lie you’ve ever told...
...team scatters behind the altar to slip into the newly agreed-upon outfits, short-shorts over fishnets, and matching lime-Green “Fifteen Minutes” T-shirts. Fee pops open the day’s fifth can of Diet Coke. “Coke should so be our sponsor,” he quipped, chasing a nugget of beef jerky with the aspartame-filled brew...
...northern summer, when England beat Australia at cricket for the first time since 1986-87. You can't blame him for everything that went wrong, but you can blame him for some of it. Buchanan could out-analyze Hercule Poirot. But in complacent teams it's the basics that slip first, and Australia's fielding, running between the wickets, and discipline went to seed. Buchanan either didn't notice or couldn't arrest the slide. It was hard to tell which, because his arguments about the merits of Australia's performances were, by the end, eccentric - akin to saying that...