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...full of students use a single computer; we've developed software that lets each student use her own mouse to control a specially colored cursor so that as many as 50 kids can use one computer at the same time. This is a big advance for schools where there aren't enough computers to go around, and it serves a market we hadn't examined before...
...Creating New Incentives Even so, no matter how hard businesses look or how creatively they think, there are some problems in the world that aren't amenable to solution by existing market incentives. Malaria is a great example: the people who most need new drugs or a vaccine are the least able to pay, so the drugs and vaccines never get made. In these cases, governments and nonprofits can create the incentives. This is the second way in which creative capitalism can take wing. Incentives can be as straightforward as giving public praise to the companies that are doing work...
There's some defiance, some insistence that the E.U. really matters. "Ten years ago, Africans had an American Dream," says one E.U. development worker. "Now they want to live in Europe. They see the power of our aid, our tolerance and our openness." But Europe's voters aren't so starstruck. To the contrary, the view of Brussels as a dream-addled dictatorship ? is sometimes fostered by national politicians and the press. "The E.U. is so often depicted as its extremes," says Margot Wallstrom, who in 2004 became the E.U.'s first Commissioner of Institutional Relations and Communications. "Either...
...producer who has also worked with U2 and Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers, won't be setting those tracks to a funky beat, but will be infusing them with piety: members from two Vatican choirs will record the accompaniment in St. Peter's Basilica. And the Priests aren't about to don sequined outfits. "We wouldn't be able to match Britney for bling," Eugene confesses...
...figure from the Washington establishment. He needs, instead, to reinforce his message of change and shake up the status quo with an outsider untainted by the Capitol games. Such a pick would be aimed not at the party's base but at the pool of independent voters who still aren't comfortable with Obama and are looking all summer for signs that he is both something different and up to the job. Those who back this approach have been talking about Kaine for months in this context, as well as former Virginia governor Mark Warner, Kansas governor Kathleen Sibelius...