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...Responding effectively to the AIDS crisis requires something of a paradigm shift in economic thinking. Last year, some 5 million people became infected with HIV, 4 million of them in Africa. The World Bank estimates that simply stopping this exponential spread of the disease through basic prevention programs throughout Africa would cost somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion a year. Before last week's launch of the U.N. war chest to fight the disease, the total investment in fighting the disease in Africa stood at no more than $400 million. And that's exactly why AIDS campaigners slammed...
Bernard's youngest brother, Wayne, 12, was sent to live with him. With no wills to direct them, Bernard and his two older siblings distributed their parents' belongings on an as-needed basis. As Wayne became a teenager, the relationship between the Strong brothers began to shift to that of peers, a change that brought some strife between them. "He became harder to parent," says Bernard. "I think one of the conflicts was asking...
...Another reason Rumsfeld was in the news this week were reports that he'd pressed for the consolidation of the space divisions of the different armed forces into a single space command under an Air Force general. This was not a particular dramatic shift, despite the media spinning it as a step to realizing Rumsfeld's Flash Gordon vision of a Space Force protecting U.S. satellites from attack by earthly rogues. But it is an indication that the media is hanging on his every word...
...According to Rudenstine, there has been a historical shift in the meaning of the bully pulpit in relation to university presidencies. Over the last 50 years, he says, the number of institutions of higher education has rapidly increased...
...Though the shift was described in simple business terms, it came as the end of years of difficult negotiations with Harvard officials. And Rudenstine was the man who made it happen—the only one who could have brokered such a far reaching , complex deal, say those involved in the process...