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...despite the horrific fate of the toiletless masses across much of South America, Africa and Asia, sanitation has never been high on the world's development agenda. NGOs and governments focus on making sure the poor have access to enough clean drinking water, but comparatively little funding goes into sanitation, even though the two are sometimes inextricable: Untreated sewage often ends up poisoning the available clean water in developing nations. In The Big Necessity, George makes a passionate argument for putting sanitation at the top of the global development agenda, profiling the efforts of redoubtable activists fighting...
...hospitals] can benefit from an appropriate relationship with teaching hospitals, as long as it doesn’t lead to development of redundant facilities,” said Donald J. Thieme, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals, a trade group. “Hospitals have relatively poor balance sheets and access to capital is very limited, and when they initiate building programs only to have someone come in and duplicate those facilities, the financial framework for those hospitals is jeopardized. And that’s what’s been happening.” The new measures...
...preserve LeWitt's work, Reynolds suggested a long-term installation of his wall drawings at Mass MoCA, which had opened in 1996 in a complex of almost two dozen derelict industrial buildings, most of them still unused by the museum. "I think Jock described me to Sol as a poor dirt farmer of a museum director," says mass moca director Joe Thompson. "Cash poor but rich in buildings and land...
Perhaps it will. But it also evokes an economic negative: South Florida's incorrigible reliance on low-wage industries like tourism. It has exacerbated the effects of the recession here - and it has led to a widening, Third World-style gap between rich and poor. The average wage in Miami-Dade County is less than $40,000; but according to a report this year by Florida Atlantic University, a family needs an income closer to $100,000 just to afford an average single-family home here. The in-your-face lifestyles of Miami's rich-and-famous have encourged...
Because of poor planning and ill-prepared government agencies, the U.S. military has assumed the primary responsibility for humanitarian aid in Iraq and Afghanistan, several war veterans said at a panel in Cabot House yesterday...