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US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam
Health: US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam Vietnam News Brief Service (c) 2006 Toan Viet Limited Company. All rights reserved. The US non-governmental organizations of East Meets West and Atlantic Philanthropies have recently funded nearly $1.5 million for eye care…
Author: Vietnam News Brief Service
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Forbes Award: Buffett Cites Chuck Feeney as ‘My Hero’
Warren Buffett and Chuck Feeney (right) at the awards ceremony where the Irish American businessman received a Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award. By Tom Lyons Warren Buffett, the renowned billionaire investor, presented Chuck Feeney, the Irish American businessman and philanthropist, with a Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement…
Author: Irish Times
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Political 'system' putting off youth
RTE Radio News at One interview (July 29)‘Almost 50% of young people unhappy with Ireland’ By Deaglán de Bréadún THE LACK of engagement in Irish politics by young people reflects the conservative nature of the system, the MacGill Summer School was told yesterday. Speaking on…
Author: The Irish Times
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Zero-Tolerance Policy Creates a School-to-Prison Pipeline
Interview by Jacob Simas EDITOR’S NOTE: Schools across the nation are increasingly adopting punitive measures as a way to control and deter violence and other disruptive behaviors. These “zero-tolerance” policies can encompass anything from metal detectors to increased police presence on school campuses to the…
Author: New America Media
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Zuma's call to nurses
SANDTON – Nurses should invoke the spirits of their noble predecessors Florence Nightingale, Cecilia Makiwane and Henrietta Stockdale and restore the profession to its rightful place in society, President Jacob Zuma told a Nursing Summit. Two thousand nurses from around the country have converged on…
Author: Health-E
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What Progressives Did Right to Win Healthcare
By Richard Kirsch. One year after the Tea Party insurgency disrupted Democratic Congressional town hall meetings, it’s worth asking how healthcare reform survived. By the beginning of 2010, Scott Brown had taken Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, reform proponents had lost the national narrative and voters…
Author: The Nation
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Health reform challenge in Australia: Repairing the fundamentals and building on stronger foundations
Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership. It is good to be back home; it’s good to be back in Brisbane; good to be…
Author: Prime Minister of Australia
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House Health Care Vote Transforms the Political Landscape
We wake up this morning surrounded by a new political world. The House vote approving health care reform was without doubt the most significant congressional vote in the last four decades. That’s because it completely transformed the American political landscape. It certainly changed America’s health…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
Original Source By JOHN LELAND JUSTIN WILLIAMS worked as an engineer at Honeywell International for 31 years, and when he retired last April, he knew he could not afford to stop working. His home in suburban Maryland, on which he had spent his 401(k) savings,…
Author: The New York Times
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A New Era of Service
During this economic crisis, the President says, the need for an army of volunteers is more urgent than ever Original Source By Barack Obama I started my career more than two decades ago as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, working with…
Author: TIME Magazine
