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...myeloid leukemia that it received FDA approval in a record 2 1/2 months. Now it seems Gleevec may be even more effective than first thought. A study shows that after two years on the drug, 95% of patients are still alive, with 40% in complete remission. Treatment isn't cheap (cost: $2,400 a month), and the pills may have to be taken for life. But we haven't heard the last of Gleevec. It's being tested on breast, stomach and other common cancers...
...recent World Health Organization report provides an example of cheap but important foreign aid help, which would create a program to fight easily preventable diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. The suggested program would be funded directly by the richest nations, at a cost of about 0.1 percent (our current aid spending) of GDP, and it would save at least eight million lives per year, or 10 times as many lives as the U.S. has lost in all its wars, ever...
...because he's not easily typecast. Asking for more government funding for the developing world is a quick way to get applause from liberal constituencies. But Bono stresses a more subtle point, and one that often raises opposition on the political left. For many nations, exporting agricultural commodities and cheap T shirts is the best way to raise standards of living, yet as soon as they try to do so, protectionist lobbies in the First World--French farmers, American textile firms--scream bloody murder. Bono isn't swayed. "There is no justification," he says, "for denying the very poorest countries...
...halves of our brain to talk while driving, it’s a threat to public safety. Let me modify this to apply to cell phones in classrooms: Since nobody can concentrate when “Yankee Doodle Dandy” blares from somebody’s cheap Nokia, that person’s safety deserves to be put in some serious jeopardy. Hit the [expletive deleted] with a pipe...
...because he's not easily typecast. Asking for more government funding for the developing world is a quick way to get applause from liberal constituencies. But Bono stresses a more subtle point, and one that often raises opposition on the political left. For many nations, exporting agricultural commodities and cheap T shirts is the best way to raise standards of living, yet as soon as they try to do so, protectionist lobbies in the First World-French farmers, American textile firms-scream bloody murder. Bono isn't swayed. "There is no justification," he says, "for denying the very poorest countries...