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Last winter, speedskater Joey Cheek was on top of the world.Years of training had finally paid off, as Cheek picked up two medals at the Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. And after he donated his winnings to Right to Play, an organization that uses sports as a tool for the development of children in disadvantaged areas, Cheek’s teammates picked him as the flag-bearer for the Games’ closing ceremony.Sure, he didn’t get into Harvard, but he was at the pinnacle of his career and, briefly, at the center of American sports attention...
...survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies. who rolled out its diarrheal-diseases control program in 1978. "The simplicity and power of this tool gave it its own momentum," Mahalanabis says. Power indeed: the initiative cut total worldwide diarrhea deaths from about 5 million in 1980 to 3 million today. In Bangladesh alone, child mortality fell from 35% to 6% over the following 20 years. But far too many people are still dying from preventable...
...obvious not when I added up my two days of hotel stay, shuttle rides between vineyards and awesome catered meals but when I opened a second bottle of 1994 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon over dinner. Diageo must figure there's no more valuable marketing tool than a guy at a dinner party boring other guests with stories about how he might have picked the very Merlot grapes they're drinking. Then again, Diageo doesn't have to be at that dinner party...
...down at my table, my first cup of coffee in one hand, and the most important tool of my job in the other, The Wall Street Journal. Referred to at work as the Bible, the Journal is the key to any aspiring i-banker’s success. I flip through the pages, relying on my well-trained eyes to spot the important stories, figures, and reports. I scan through the entire paper, hoping to retain as much information as possible, and by 5:40 a.m. I’m out the door...
...they had positions available that might work for these individuals,” wrote Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, Evelynn M. Hammonds, in an e-mail. “This is a very time consuming process. We believe that the HERC tool will help make that process easier since faculty and professional positions will be posted on the site,” she added. The dual-career issue has become an increasingly relevant topic in the past decade or so, according to the director of the NE-HERC, Jacqueline S. Hogan...