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First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Public Radio International

Public Radio International® receives $1.6 million to support global health and development reporting, online engagement initiatives

Information contained on this page is provided by companies via press release distributed through PR Newswire, an independent third-party content provider. PR Newswire, WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection the ... [ Published May 21 2012 by KWWL ]

Entities: Public Radio International, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 1 Documents

U.K. financing population control

With a specific target in mind, the British government has sent a $268 million check to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes women and men. Joseph Meaney, director of international coordination forÂ Human Life InternationalÂ ... [ Published May 20 2012 by One News Now ]

Entities: Sterilize, Sterilization, UK Government

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

New survey examines how teachers use digital games

In efforts to further understand the impact of digital media in kindergarten to grade eight classrooms, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has released results from its first US national teacher survey on games and teaching called Teacher Attitudes about Digital ... [ Published May 15 2012 by KidScreen Magazine ]

Entities: Joan Ganz Cooney, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, US National, Video Games

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

National AIDS Control Organisation

'Domestic funding enough to take AIDS programme ahead'

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) As global fund donors pull out from India's next AIDS control programme (2012-2017), the chief of the coveted Gates Foundation-led Avahan project Wednesday said the country is capable of taking the programme ahead through domestic ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Yahoo! Maktoob News ]

Entities: HIV/AIDS, Ashok Alexander, National AIDS Control Organisation

First Reported Apr 13 2012 - Updated Apr 13 2012 - 1 Documents

David Pogue

Creative thinking conference in Ridgefield

New York Times tech columnist David Pogue will give the opening lecture at a two-day creative thinking conference in Ridgefield this month.The conference is called "Advancing Creative Thinking: Imagination to Innovation." It will take place April 27 and ... [ Published Apr 13 2012 by Stamford Advocate ]

Entities: Ridgefield (Connecticut, United States), Creativity, David Pogue

First Reported Apr 11 2012 - Updated Apr 12 2012 - 1 Documents

To Seriously Improve Global Health, Reinvent the Toilet

The toilet is a magnificent thing. Invented at the turn of the 19th century, the flush version has vastly improved human life.The toilet has been credited with adding a decade to our longevity. The sanitation system to which it is attached was voted the ... [ Published Apr 11 2012 by Korea Herald ]

Entities: Global Health Ltd, Sanitation, Developing World

First Reported Apr 12 2012 - Updated Apr 12 2012 - 1 Documents

Seattle University

Homelessness exhibit sheds light on those without

Photojournalist and Seattle University journalism fellow Dan Lamont is pictured with one of his photos in the “Looking Into Light” photo exhibit at Seattle City Hall on Wednesday, April 4. The exhibit, on display until April 27, is sponsored by the National ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Seattle University Spectator ]

Entities: Seattle, Seattle University, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

First Reported Apr 06 2012 - Updated Apr 06 2012 - 1 Documents

Overwhelming Number of Americans That Don't Read Books

Fewer people are reading - but at least they're reading more, and in more formats than ever.That is, according to the results of a series of telephone surveys carried out by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, funded by the Bill ... [ Published Apr 06 2012 by AfricanSeer ]

Entities: E-book, E-Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook

First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 06 2012 - 3 Documents

US book lovers increasingly embracing digital format: Pew study

A new Pew study shows that an increasing number of US book lovers prefer inkless pages. Slightly over a fifth of US adults reported having used an "e-book" during the past year, as their ranks grew with the popularity of Kindles, Nooks, iPads and other ... [ Published Apr 06 2012 by domain-b ]

Entities: Lee Rainie, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pew Research Center, E-Reader, E-book

First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 05 2012 - 1 Documents

eReaders, eBooks More Popular Than Ever, Survey Finds

Fewer people are reading - but at least they're reading more, and in more formats than ever. That is, , funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which were published yesterday.The report showed that as of February 2012, 21% of Americans had read ... [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Huffington Post ]

Entities: E-book, E-Reader, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 05 2012 - 1 Documents

E-book readers read offline and on: study

One in five American adults report reading an e-book in the past year, and those who read e-books devoured more books than those who read the old-fashioned way (24 versus 15 on average in the previous 12 months), according to a report by the Pew Research ... [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Chicago Sun-Times ]

Entities: E-book, Maureen Sullivan, American Library Association, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Public Radio International® receives $1.6 million to support global health and development report ... [KWWL - May 21 2012]

"I found out there are more people that do the things I do, and some do more," he said. "Now I'm getting As and Bs, and I feel more confident in school."

Help for a 'hidden population' of caregiving kids [Channel4000 - May 17 2012]

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Worldwide Malaria Deaths Grossly Underestimated [ Published Feb 03 2012 by 2oceansvibe.com - Work is a sideline, live the ... ] New research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggests 1,24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010: nearly twice the number previously estimated for that period. ...
Who is 2011's Most Powerful Young Woman? [ Published Jan 27 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] This year, Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in the world range in age from 25 (Lady Gaga) to 85 (Queen Elizabeth II) and have an average of 54 years under their belts. But these women prove that power can be attained well before middle age. With ages calculated ...