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  • July 2008

    • Gates Urges Companies to Get Creative to Improve Lives

      Time  |  Jul 31, 08 6:04 PM CDT

      Gates Urges Companies to Get Creative to Improve Lives

      (Newser) - Bill Gates tweaks his corporate colleagues with an essay in Time urging businesses to look harder for ways to extend the benefits of capitalism to a greater portion of the global population. As a philanthropist, he says, he recognizes the need for nonprofit work, but as a businessman, he knows that only corporations have the resources to improve people’s lives on a grand scale—they just need incentives. More »

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      Bill Gates  • poverty  • philanthropy  • malaria  • capitalism  • humanitarian  • incentives

  • February 2008

    • Helping Hands Often Hurt: Study

      LiveScience  |  Feb 27, 08 8:20 PM CST

      Helping Hands Often Hurt: Study

      (Newser) - Disaster response can be a damaging force when aid isn't applied intelligently and in an organized fashion, a Harvard researcher tells LiveScience. A study by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative found incidences of spoiled food, haphazardly administered medicine, and donated clothes appropriate for neither culture nor climate. The study calls on aid groups to change their ways. More »

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      disaster recovery  • humanitarian  • humanitarian organizations

  • November 2007

    • Yahoo Settles With Chinese Journalists

      CNET  |  Nov 13, 07 5:25 PM CST

      Yahoo Settles With Chinese Journalists

      (Newser) - One week after being labeled moral “pygmies” in a House hearing, Yahoo settled a lawsuit  brought by two Chinese journalists jailed when the Internet giant turned over their personal data to Beijing. The two men, now serving 10-year sentences on charges of leaking state secrets, sued Yahoo for providing the Chinese government with their emails and addresses. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. More »

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      China  • lawsuit  • Yahoo  • House of Representatives  • jail  • journalist  • settlement  • humanitarian

  • May 2007

    • Evangelicals Sway Toward the Center

      New York Times  |  May 21, 07 5:34 AM CDT

      Evangelicals Sway Toward the Center

      (Newser) - The once hard-right Evangelical Christian movement is waxing centrist, the New York Times reports, as a new breed of religious leaders breaks from an abortion-and-sexuality-obsessed old guard to tackle broader nonpartisan issues like AIDS, and even liberal-leaning ones like Darfur and global warming.  More »

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      climate change  • Rudy Giuliani  • abortion  • Christianity  • evangelicals  • religious right  • Jerry Falwell  • humanitarian

  • April 2007

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