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The Shah Appointment at USAID

Mira Kamdar | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Usaid, Clinton Global Initiative, Food Crisis, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Obama, Hillary Clinton, United States, Cold War, Rockefeller Foundation, Rajiv Shah, Gates Foundation, Foreign Policy, Green News
Mira Kamdar

With the appointment of Rajiv Shah to head USAID, it's deja-vu all over again for the Obama administration. Welcome to Camelot redux, the 1960's re-engineered for the 2010s.

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Meeting our Metropolitan Challenge

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Urbanization, World Habitat Day, Rockefeller Foundation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Cities, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rodin

The US today hosts World Habitat Day for the first time. It sets a simple question in sharp relief: Will we shape the historic forces driving billions of people to metro regions or will we let these forces shape us?

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The Swine AcCHORDS: Infectious Disease Surveillance in the 21st Century

Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Homeland Security, President Obama, Swine Flu, Global Health and Security Initiative, H1N1 Influenza, Sam Nunn, Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova, World Health Organization, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Health and Human Services, Ibm, Chords, Nti, Ghsi, World News
Vikrum Aiyer

Regional disease surveillance networks be established -- both among developing countries and developed ones -- in order to improve the quality of detection and control across borders.

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The Post-Social Contract Generation

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Youth, Economics, Work, Judith Rodin, Economic Security, Generation Y, Millennials, Time, Social Contract, Rockefeller Foundation, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rodin

Almost half of America's youngest workers believe the nation's best days may have come and gone. This is Generation Y, the nation's largest age group, and increasingly its most pessimistic.

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Melinda Gates On Dating The Boss, Being Friends With Bono and Buffett, And Donating All That Money

Fortune | Patricia Sellers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Apple, Rockefeller Foundation, Melinda Gates, Business News

Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair - with an Apple computer. She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working...

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