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...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this summer awarded a $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that battles multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...
...reams of regulations lead to lots of violations. A recent Navy survey found that 62% of U.S. submarines stored flammable liquids improperly, increasing the chance of a fire. And 57% of them had nonapproved multi-outlet power strips. More than 30% of the subs were missing basic lifesaving equipment--such as nose clips, whistles and fluorescent sea markers--that sailors would need if they had to escape from their submarine individually...
There are smaller safety concerns as well. Only iron-based metals can be ground on a submarine's grinding machine because other metals can leave a residue on the wheel, triggering imbalances that could lead to its dangerous disintegration. Only Navy-approved multi-outlet power strips are supposed to be brought onboard. Every clothes iron must have a three-prong plug...
...Andrew Cuomo, Mario's telegenic offspring and the HUD secretary in the Clinton administration, opened the evening by surveying Bender's multi-megabucks white manse and saying straight-faced that "this was actually a HUD home. This is the new affordable housing proposed by Clinton and Gore. We think, after this, that more neighborhoods will be open to public housing!" Actor William Baldwin, president of the Creative Coalition, was clearly gloating at the mass of celebrity-hood in attendance. "Smoke and mirrors, Tinseltown and Hollywood. We fooled 'em again," he said surveying the crowd. "Here were are using the resources...
...largest ever private donation to fight tuberculosis, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week awarded a five-year, $44.7 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program that will use the funds to battle multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Peru...