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Stopping Malaria: Affordable New Test Seeks To Reveal Hidden Reservoirs Of Disease

November 20, 2015
In 1980, the world collectively shed not a single tear upon hearing that the scourge of smallpox would likely never take another life. A gargantuan global effort had eradicated the disease in the open (though the virus still survives in government labs). Now it looks as if humanity will be able to close the book on polio, another terrible infectious disease that has wreaked havoc throughout history.
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Bill Gates: Failing Up — When Development Goes Wrong… and Right

Bill Gates Microsoft Corporation
May 27, 2014
Bono calls the economist Jeffrey Sachs “the squeaky wheel that roars.” To me, Sachs is the Bono of economics—a guy with impressive intelligence, passion and powers of persuasion who is devoting his gifts to speaking up for the poorest people on the planet.
So I was not surprised that a journalist would find Sachs to be a compelling central character for a book—and a good way to draw readers into the potentially dry subject of international development.
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