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...internal memo from the World Bank said to be authored by Summers is leaked to the Economist. The memo, which advocates dumping toxic waste into third world countries, draws fire from environmentalist groups and politicians in Washington...
...note alludes to several of Summers’ controversies, including a 1991 memo he signed while Chief Economist for the World Bank suggesting that third-world nations are under-polluted, his support for the military’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program—which is barred from campus and has been criticized for its ban on openly-gay members, and his statements calling the signers of a petition for Harvard’s divestment from Israel anti-Semitic “in their effect, if not their intent?...
Crafting your own clothes isn't going to solve the problems of Third World workers, but there's something rewarding about being resource minded in your own community, says Jean Railla, author of Get Crafty, a guide to do-it-yourself style, and creator of the website getcrafty.com "The idea is that we consume consciously," says Railla, 34. "That might mean you wear jeans from Old Navy, a T shirt you deconstructed from a thrift store, a vintage blazer and a hand-knit scarf...
...When it comes to bird flu, what you don't know can hurt you?and everyone else. Ngan is just one of many Cambodians clinging to reassuring misinformation about the disease. Cambodia recently became the third nation since 2004 to suffer a human fatality from bird flu, intensifying concerns that it will continue to spread. "The world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pandemic," warned Dr. Shigeru Omi, the Western Pacific regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), during an international bird-flu conference last week in Ho Chi Minh City. "The longer the virus...
...room of San Francisco's War Memorial Veterans Building last summer. But the 63-year-old Vietnam War veteran knew what he was looking for: exhibits for a local ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines at the close of World War II. Instead, the third-generation Philippine-American may have discovered something of enormous historical value: a brittle, stained satin flag that the Philippine National Historical Institute reportedly says is "most likely" the nation's first. That would be the one designed in 1897 by General Emilio Aguinaldo while in exile...