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...reality is that those most in need of essential medicines are often those least likely to be able to afford them. Although weak health infrastructure and unreliable drug delivery systems are contributory factors to the current “access gap,” high medicine prices remain a primary barrier to treatment for the destitute sick. In Thailand, for example, an 18-fold reduction in the price of HIV treatment has allowed the Thai government to expand its national treatment program from 3,000 to 85,000 individuals in the past four years...
...Having a Web Site. The UC’s Web site needs to stop being a weak tool that serves as a link to the UC and students. Instead, it should be free to design its own destiny. By giving the Web site an endowment and organizing a crack team of for-profit business school students, the UC’s Web site will finally become a true power player by consolidating power until it finally assumes its correct role as the hegemonic ruler of the world, er, we mean, the trusty student Web portal...
DIED. Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, erudite, acerbic first female U.S. ambassador to the U.N., whose impassioned neoconservatism and blunt assessments of Democrats made her a G.O.P. star; in Bethesda, Md. Disgusted with what she perceived as the U.S.'s weak image under Jimmy Carter, the longtime Democrat, who did not formally switch parties until 1985, became publicly known as an ardent anticommunist and one of Ronald Reagan's closest foreign policy advisers. She helped Reagan distinguish between unfriendly Marxist "totalitarian" regimes and acceptable, rightist "authoritarian" ones; lambasted targets from the Soviet Union to the U.N. Security Council; and in a speech...
Consumers know by now they are at risk of identity theft, of "phishing" e-mail attacks and of other scams designed to get them to cough up their account information (and then, too often, the contents of that account). Fake heists show that customers aren't the only weak link in the chain. "We have hacked into every single online banking application that we've tested, except one," says Stickley. So even if you follow all the rules--never respond to an e-mail purporting to be from a bank, shred every piece of paper containing personal information, only return...
Schifferes also delivered a notable performance, and while Adamson was a weak performer in the first act, he later became more intriguing with his spirited denunciation of Captain Shotover’s daughters. Bohrer was also slow to grow into his character, but he reached his element in the second act when he wildly alternated between furious rampages and lovelorn docility...