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1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Last night we saw the final instalment of Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the BBC3 reality TV show about the garment industry in India. We have been fairly critical of the show in previous weeks since it has seemed to focus on the Brit’s shock at their living conditions, but last night’s episode managed to present some really powerful messages and hopefully left viewers with a clear understanding of some of the difficult debates in ethical trade.
1 FaverShareViewed: 5 TimesQuoted: Jeff Raikes, a 27-year veteran of Microsoft, will take over the $37 billion Gates Foundation in September. Bill and Melinda Gates tell NPR that they picked Raikes because he shares their passion to try to help minimize poverty around the globe.
cool!
1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: SYDNEY (AFP) - Twenty-six major cities around the world are expected to turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness ...
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: If you look at GDP per head, the world is a different-and, by and large, a better-place
1 FaverShareViewed: 17 TimesQuoted: India has some of the hardest-working bureaucrats in the world, but its administration has an abysmal record of serving the public
agreed. India really needs to devise reforms to curb corruption in the civil/public sector, there by increasing political will for larger economic strides toward deregulation of certain public markets.
2 FaversShareViewed: 22 TimesQuoted: Failure to reform a bloated civil service is putting the country's huge economic achievements at risk
A Slate piece analyzing how Bush and Rice have contributed to the Pakistan debacle.
2 FaversShareViewed: 14 TimesQuoted: Now we've really got problems. The state of emergency in Pakistan signals yet another low point in President George W. Bush's foreign policy—a stark demonstration of his paltry influence and his bankrupt principles.
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A public experiment that was better in theory than in practice: "In the end, the restrooms, installed in early 2004, had become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city’s most destitute people refused to step inside them."
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