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...WHILE??TREATING impoverished rural amputees in Jaipur, India, orthopedic surgeon P.K. Sethi and local craftsman Ram Chandra devised something revolutionary: an affordable prosthetic foot made of flexible materials that offered mobility for villagers accustomed to walking barefoot and sitting on the floor. First used broadly for land-mine victims in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion, the $30 Jaipur foot has aided millions of patients in more than 25 developing or war-torn countries. Sethi...
...morning in March, while??pulling out of the driveway, I saw a large manila envelope bound by a rubber band to the post of my mailbox, whose broken door hangs open in a permanent expression of disbelief...
...what you like, Joel, but while??you're eating your horsemeat salad, I'll be laughing. I know what is really in that horsemeat, what you cannot taste through your olive-oil-and-lemon-juice dressing. Since horses are not raised for food in the U.S., they are not subject to the same regulations. We give our horses lots of drugs to keep them healthy, fit and pain-free. I could sell my cancerous Arabian to the slaughterhouse, and her highly medicated meat could end up on your plate. So, go ahead, enjoy your horsemeat. But just be sure that...
...down there, the first fellow that greeted me was Otto Kahn [Kuhn, Loeb & Co.]. ... I didn't recognize him as a particular friend of Norris and La Follette. . . . I looked around at that bunch and it seemed to me there was something doing and in a little while???this occurred in the reception room?I remember the distinguished so-called Senator-elect Vare was there?after a while someone lifted up a curtain on a table or a bookcase or something...
Next day every one talks about the brave fellow who, while others dithered, plunged in through the burning hall and saved a life. The burned-out neighbors thank him profusely. The servant thanks him. He is a hero, for a while???and then life gets back to routine. The fire becomes a legend...