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...Poverty. As regular readers of TIME know, Sachs is one of the world's most distinguished economists, a man who has guided countries from Bolivia to Poland through bad financial times, advised the Pope on Third World debt relief and helped launch the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria. As head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he has tried to promote the idea that developing countries can protect the environment while improving the lives of their citizens. In writing The End of Poverty, Sachs has attempted to construct a new way of looking at the plight...
...Americans think about TB at all, it is usually only in fearful association with drug addicts, the homeless or prison inmates. It is easy to forget that within living memory, tuberculosis was a major public-health problem in this country. Researchers, realizing that drug-resistant varieties are emerging from inadequate treatment both here and in other parts of the world, have launched the first North American vaccine trial in 60 years, using new formulas created with recombinant DNA technology. The results of the trial are eagerly awaited by public-health workers in the developing world, where TB kills nearly...
Throw in sophomore receiver Corey Mazza and speedy TB Clifton Dawson, and the offense will be both versatile and dangerous...
...greater than the number of prevented cases. Health workers have created a game plan that can be applied to other scourges. "With this campaign, we have gathered a huge body of practical, field-tested methods on how to eradicate a disease," he says. "Once we develop vaccines for TB, SARS, HIV or malaria, we will be able to use these methods to add even more to the health of humanity...
What's an ambitious economist to do if he has already counseled countries from Bolivia to Poland through rough financial times, advised the Pope on globalization and helped launch a global fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria? For Jeffrey Sachs, 49, the logical next act is to help save the entire planet from what he warns could be an "environmental catastrophe" caused by climate change and the destruction of wildlife. In 2002, Sachs abruptly ended a 22-year Harvard career to head Columbia University's Earth Institute, which has 19 research divisions. He has also become a top adviser...