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...drugs and vaccines never get made. In these cases, governments and nonprofits can create the incentives. This is the second way in which creative capitalism can take wing. Incentives can be as straightforward as giving public praise to the companies that are doing work that serves the poor. This summer, a Dutch nonprofit called the Access to Medicine Foundation started publishing a report card that shows which pharmaceutical companies are doing the most to make sure that medicines are made for - and reach - people in developing countries. When I talk to executives from pharmaceutical companies, they tell me that they...
...This summer, though, Hair may have its stars in alignment at last. A definitive version of the groundbreaking show has just started a monthlong run in New York City's outdoor Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Expanded from a concert version that ran for a weekend last September, the revival is being produced by the city's Public Theater, Joseph Papp's downtown theater lab that first opened its doors in 1967 with Hair. It is returning on the 40th anniversary of the show's Broadway debut. All the tickets, fittingly, are free. Most folks queue up on the Internet...
...Oakland County than in any other part of the state. McCain has been to Michigan six times since mid-March, stopping in Oakland once. By mid-July, the two campaigns had spent at least $5.6 million on television advertising in the state. And as the economy has worsened this summer, both candidates have talked of shifting Michigan to a greener economy and developing biofuels and electric cars in lieu of SUVS and trucks. The Big Three are slowly moving in that direction, which could benefit engineers and researchers who live in Oakland, even if it means additional lost positions...
...used to mark a break with his flashier former boss and rival Blair, famous for his breaks in aging pop star Cliff Richard's Barbados house and Bee Gee Robin Gibb's Florida mansion. Britain is the "best place in the world to have a holiday," said Brown last summer. This from a man who was a regular visitor to Cape Cod until he became Prime Minister...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy, however, has no qualms with vacationing in the U.S.: he famously flipped burgers with President Bush at the Commander in Chief's oceanfront retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine last summer (Sarkozy didn't stay with Bush but based himself in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire). And what of Sarko's "buddy," the Democratic nominee Barack Obama? He's going to spend a week in his native Hawaii come mid-August, though is still planning to hold a fund raiser during the trip. But at least Obama will have some downtime: his Republican rival John McCain hasn't even announced...