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...NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work--rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling--has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, CARE, Save the Children, World Vision and the International Rescue Committee. "Emergency relief is sexy, but people need sewers and roads and health clinics," says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy...
...wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high school grads are more likely to end up in retail jobs with low pay and minimal benefits, if any. From this end of the social pyramid, Arnett's vision of emerging adulthood as a playground of self-discovery seems a little rosy. The rules have changed, and not in the twixters' favor...
...earthly habitat and the brilliance of the species that could contrive to get up, out and beyond it. Indeed, the birth of our modern "whole earth" consciousness can be traced to a single act of exploration: Apollo 8's circumnavigation of the moon and the astonishing photo--Earthrise, that vision of a little blue planet--that it sent back...
Richard Li, the entrepreneurial son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more...
...Five years later, Li's vision?or at least a less grandiose reincarnation of it?may be validated after all. Sixteen months ago, his phone company (rebranded PCCW after the purchase) started offering Hong Kong residents who subscribe to its broadband Internet access a slate of pay-TV channels delivered to their TV sets over the phone lines. Called NOW Broadband TV, the service has made surprisingly rapid inroads, reaching more than 420,000 households?35% of the Hong Kong pay-TV market?in its first year of operation. It took I Cable, Hong Kong's sole cable-TV provider...