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American media sources ignore the thousands of Africans who die every day of AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and starvation. The media sustains the mindset that white American lives are more important than both black American and black African lives because of its biased coverage. When was the last time you saw CNN do a profile on an innocent black girl caught in the crossfire of a gang fight...
...course domestic problems are important, but the U.S. government can eke out a few extra billion dollars from the super-sized military budget or the agribusiness-loving farm bill. As individuals and corporations, we can donate to the U.N’s Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (www.apathy-is-lethal.org), which is using all the money it gets to save lives. Or we can donate to OXFAM, another worthy organization that fights suffering and death in Africa and around the world. Singer recommends UNICEF, which specifically helps mothers and children. When you’re considering that new North...
...Much to the relief of Egyptologists, today there's no need to keep grinding up those mummies. In 1856, William Henry Perkin, a bright, just-18-year-old chemistry student, was looking for a synthetic substitute for quinine, a cure for malaria. Perkin was at home, doing experiments infusing coal tar with hydrogen and oxygen?and had failed. Washing out his test tubes, he noticed a residue that resulted in a "strangely beautiful color"?mauve. Hidden inside a lump of coal tar, writes Finlay, was "the potential for thousands of colors." This is where most of our dyes come from...
Lewis told the audience that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked last year for the nations of the world to contribute to a fund that would be allocated to fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Annan appealed especially to wealthy nations, asking for a minimum of $10 billion—but since then only about $2.1 billion has come in, Lewis said...
...these reasons, some argue, the $34 million used for sequencing the genomes, and the millions of dollars more it would cost to develop aresistant bug, might be better spent on sending the tools we already have--pesticides, netting, malaria drugs--into Africa and other parts of the malaria-plagued world where they are in desperately short supply. --By Jeffrey Kluger