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☆ Thomas Midgley Jr.: The man who almost destroyed the planet (twice)
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Facing a crowd of journalists, inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. poured a lead additive over his hands and then proceeded to inhale its fumes for about a minute. Unfazed, he said, “I could do this every day without getting any health problems whatsoever.”Soon afterward, Midgley needed medical treatment. The task of addressing the issue of engine knocking fell to Midgley while he was working at General Motors in 1916. An estimated 1 million people a year still die from lead poisoning, according to the World Health Organization. The toxicity of lead was already well-known when Midgley added it to gas, but that didn’t stop Ethyl from becoming a commercial success.

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☆ Opinion | The End of Polio Is in Sight. What Have We Learned?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Richard Conniff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The fight to eradicate polio has been long and difficult. But polio continues to this day disabling or killing children in some harder to reach parts of the world. The good news is that we are now on the cusp of eradicating this terrible disease everywhere and forever. Having used this strategy to stop polio, people in developing nations are already looking to apply those same tools against other diseases, both familiar and emerging. Because the communities are poor, and because families can lose patience with repeated visits focused only on polio, the workers also bring nutritional supplements, health information and other resources.

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☆ Inside the life and career of Larry Page, Google's co-founder and first CEO
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

AdvertisementSo who is Larry Page and how did he get to where he is today? AdvertisementPage and Sergey Brin create GoogleGoogle co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met as students at Stanford. Google's parent company, Alphabet, has developed self-driving cars through Waymo, the company formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car project. Page's personal lifeGoogle cofounder Larry Page and his wife, the scientist Lucinda Southworth C Flanigan/FilmMagicThroughout it all, Page has kept information about his personal life closely guarded. Life after GoogleGoogle cofounder Larry Page bought Cayo Norte, an island in Puerto Rico.

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☆ How Melinda French Gates became one of the world’s wealthiest and most important philanthropists
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —On Monday, Melinda French Gates announced her resignation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, officially ending one of the world’s leading philanthropic partnerships. In French Gates’ 2008 Fortune profile, Buffett said French Gates helped focus the foundation’s mission. In addition to French Gates, Gates and Buffett, The Giving Pledge counts billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and MacKenzie Scott as signatories. French Gates has a net worth of $13.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, while Bill Gates’ net worth is $153 billion. French Gates’ departure from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been hinted at since the couple announced their divorce in May 2021.

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☆ My centenarian grandmother's longevity and lifestyle tips included keeping up with technology, a bustling social life, and gossip
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Caitlin Weaver | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Her active social life and adaptability to technology played key roles in her longevity. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Caitlin Weaver's grandmother loved reading. Courtesy Caitlin WeaverShe was very social — and loved to gossipNo one loved gossip more than my grandmother. Caitlin Weaver's grandmother loved traveling.

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☆ My centenarian grandmother's lifestyle tips included keeping up with technology, a bustling social life, and gossip
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Caitlin Weaver | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Related storiesHere are a few things I truly believe helped her live a long and happy life, many of which might surprise you. Caitlin Weaver's grandmother loved reading. Courtesy Caitlin WeaverShe was very social — and loved to gossipNo one loved gossip more than my grandmother. She traveled and embraced new adventuresThe first half of her life revolved around raising three kids and helping run the family farm. Caitlin Weaver's grandmother loved traveling.

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☆ Lawyer, Author and TikTok Star Spent 72 Years in an Iron Lung
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive. But the toll of living in an iron lung with polio did not stop Mr. Alexander from going to college, getting a law degree and practicing law for more than 30 years. He was one of the last few people in the United States living inside an iron lung, which works by rhythmically changing air pressure in the chamber to force air in and out of the lungs. He had been briefly hospitalized with the coronavirus in February, according to his TikTok account. After he returned home, Mr. Alexander struggled with eating and hydrating as he recovered from the virus, which attacks the lungs and can be especially dangerous to people who are older and have breathing problems.

Persons: Paul Alexander, Alexander, Philip Alexander Locations: United States

☆ ‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Mira Cheng | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his brother Philip Alexander. He was placed in an iron lung, a large metal cylinder that varies air pressure to stimulate breathing, according to his autobiography. Our neighbors would run over and help us pump it.”Paul spent the next seven decades in an iron lung. In March 2023, he was declared the longest surviving iron lung patient in the world by the Guinness World Records. He learned breathing techniques that allowed him to leave the iron lung for a few hours at a time.

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☆ Middle East Crisis Israeli Official Expresses Some Optimism Over Cease-Fire Deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Adam Sella | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Image Displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in southern Gaza, as smoke rises over the nearby city of Khan Younis last month. That figure could climb to 66,720 if there were outbreaks of infectious disease such as cholera, their analysis found. Their study considers deaths from traumatic injuries, infectious diseases, maternal and neonatal causes, and noncommunicable diseases for which people can no longer receive medication or treatment, such as dialysis. Dr. Checchi said the analysis made it possible to quantify the potential impact of a cease-fire in lives. The projected 6,500 deaths even with a cease-fire is predicated on the assumption there will not be epidemics of infectious disease.

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☆ Opinion | Mr. President, Ditch the Stealth About Health
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Once, when my father was in West Virginia on police business, a man approached him and demanded to know about “rumors” that President Franklin Roosevelt was “crippled.” The man threatened to beat up my father or anyone who said F.D.R. (I have a picture of my father, in a fedora, guarding Roosevelt at a Senators baseball game, with the president standing up with the help of his braces to throw out the first pitch.) Like others around Roosevelt, my dad kept a tight lip about the paralysis of the president, who did not want to seem weak. With the help of a complicit press corps, a censoring Secret Service and a variety of ruses, F.D.R. was even able to campaign giving the impression that he was mobile.

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☆ Trump set to return to the city he loves to hate and hates to love
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

No modern president has been as visceral about Washington as Trump – and his contempt offers insight into his politics and his character. Washington’s marbled monuments have also been the been the backdrop for some of the most notorious moments of Trump’s political career and have highlighted his autocratic leanings. In 2020, he tweeted that people protesting the death of Floyd would be met by “vicious dogs” if they breached the White House fence. Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush were always keen to swap the White House for their Texas ranches. Presidents have also often ventured out of the White House for refreshment.

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☆ Africa's richest person just opened a $19 billion oil refinery to help Nigeria reduce fuel imports
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewAfrica's richest person has opened one of the world's largest oil refineries in Nigeria. Aliko Dangote, the billionaire founder and chairman of the multinational conglomerate the Dangote Group, opened the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in a bid to help make Nigeria self-sufficient in fuel. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The $19 billion refinery, in the coastal city of Lekki, near Lagos, has suffered years of delays and setbacks, but it finally began production last week. This is something that the new Dangote refinery aims to change by eventually producing up to 650,000 barrels a day.

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☆ In Norway, a Proposed Ban on Foreign Adoptions Rattles All Sides of a Heated Debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Ali Watkins | More About Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yet another woman was given up to an orphanage by a vindictive grandmother, trying to break up her son’s marriage. Theirs are but a sliver of stories that have rattled Norway’s — and, potentially, greater Europe’s — robust foreign adoptions industry. On Tuesday, one of Norway’s top policy bodies recommended a halt to all foreign adoptions amid a probe into allegations of stolen children, forged paperwork and illegal, adoption-for-profit schemes. On the same day, Denmark’s sole foreign adoption agency announced it would be winding down its own operations following similar concerns. The recommendation in Norway, sweeping in its scope, took all sides of the adoption debate by surprise.

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☆ Agencies Consider New Aid Route Into Sudan as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Aidan Lewis(Reuters) - Aid agencies are looking at delivering aid to Sudan on a new route from South Sudan as they struggle to access much of the country, a senior U.N. official said on Monday, nine months into a war that has caused a major humanitarian crisis. More than 7.5 million people have fled their homes, making Sudan the biggest displacement crisis globally, and hunger is rising. Aid agencies lost access to Wad Madani, a former aid hub in the important El Gezira agricultural region southeast of Khartoum, after the RSF seized it from the army last month. Diplomats and aid workers say that the army and officials aligned with it have hampered humanitarian access as both sides pursue their military campaigns. They say the RSF does little to protect aid supplies and workers, and that its troops have been implicated in cases of looting.

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☆ Bill Gates warns the world is likely to smash through a critical warming threshold
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bill Gates arrives for a press conference to launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the European Commission's Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels on October 11, 2023. Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday said the world is likely to overshoot a critical temperature threshold that scientists have long warned could bring dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts on people, wildlife and ecosystems. However, the Microsoft co-founder said any headway in the climate fight would likely not be enough to prevent 2 degrees Celsius of global warming. His comments come as policymakers and business leaders convene in Dubai for the United Nations' biggest and most important annual climate summit. "There is not some binary cut-off where at a certain temperature everything is horrible," Gates said on Friday.

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☆ Unvaccinated and Vulnerable: Children Drive Surge in Deadly Outbreaks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Stephanie Nolen | More About Stephanie Nolen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Large outbreaks of diseases that primarily kill children are spreading around the world, a grim legacy of disruptions to health systems during the Covid-19 pandemic that have left more than 60 million children without a single dose of standard childhood vaccines. By midway through this year, 47 countries were reporting serious measles outbreaks, compared with 16 countries in June 2020. Nigeria is currently facing the largest diphtheria outbreak in its history, with more than 17,000 suspected cases and nearly 600 deaths so far. Many of the children who missed their shots have now aged out of routine immunization programs. So-called “zero-dose children” account for nearly half of all child deaths from vaccine-preventable illnesses, according to Gavi, the organization that helps fund vaccination in low- and middle-income countries.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Political Cartoons View All 1237 ImagesAll states allow exemptions for children with medical conditions that prevents them from receiving certain vaccines. But the percentage with nonmedical exemptions has inched up, lifting the overall exemption rate from 1.6% in the 2011-2012 school year to 3% last year. Hawaii saw the largest jump, with the exemption rate rising to 6.4%, nearly double the year before. One apparent paradox in the report: The national vaccination rate held steady even as exemptions increased.

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☆ Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club, the quirky direct-to-consumer pioneer that never really fit in with the massive company
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club seven years after paying $1 billion for the brand. Unilever struggled to grow Dollar Shave Club, sources previously told. "Dollar Shave Club did not deliver as expected, and the economics of the DTC model changed," then-CEO Jope said during an earnings call in 2022. "Dollar Shave Club will also serve as a platform for additional brands with a similar DNA." Do you have a story idea about Dollar Shave Club or Unilever to share?

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☆ Unilever is selling Dollar Shave Club after 7 long, awkward years of trying to make it work
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The two Africa-based vaccine manufacturers are receiving $5 million each in funding from the foundation, while another $10 million is earmarked for other companies that have not yet been named. Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe mRNA vaccine technology came to the forefront with the production of COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. Those COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were fast-tracked through the regulatory process and granted emergency use authorization. The new vaccines under development in Africa face a far longer development timeline — anywhere from three to seven years. It has spent billions of dollars to vaccinate against polio, treat and prevent malaria and HIV and more recently advance vaccines for diseases like cholera.

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Vaccine providers and the police assigned to protect them have been attacked during past anti-polio campaigns, which militants falsely claimed were a Western conspiracy to sterilize children. Pakistan has registered two new polio cases since January, a blow to the goal of eradicating a disease that affects the nervous system and can cause severe paralysis in children. Pakistan came close to eradicating polio in 2021, when only one case was reported, and last year reported about two dozen cases. The cases so far this year were reported from northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, where the Taliban rulers last week launched a four-day polio vaccine drive targeted at children under 5. In 2022, only two polio cases were reported from Afghanistan, raising hopes for the eradication of disease.

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Over the past few years, she has administered some 10,000 coronavirus vaccines in her community in eastern Ethiopia. “But I keep going because I value the work.”Ms. Yusuf is one in a legion of more than three million community health workers globally and is one of a small minority that are actually paid anything at all. Eighty-six percent of community health workers in Africa are completely unpaid. But now, spurred by frustrations that arose during the Covid pandemic and connected by digital technologies that have reached even remote areas, community health workers are organizing to fight for fair compensation. The movement stretches across developing countries and echoes the labor actions undertaken by female garment workers in many of those nations 40 years ago.

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☆ Majority of US dog owners hesitant about canine vaccines, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Rollo Ross | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The study of Canine Vaccination Hesitancy (CVH) by Boston University's School of Public Health was released on Aug. 26. It found 37% of owners consider dog vaccines to be unsafe, 22% of dog owners view them as ineffective, and 30% deem them unnecessary. In all, 53% of dog owners held one of these three views, according to the study, which was conducted in partnership with the market research and data analytics company YouGov. However, veterinarians also try to persuade dog owners to get their pets vaccinated against other diseases. In California, vets recommend vaccines against parvovirus, canine hepatitis and distemper.

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And at the age of 68, I’m very fortunate in that I can do sort of one-off appearances now and then. It’s arduous.”Instead, Lennox plans on performing at more events like “ Time for Change,” a fundraiser for numerous nonprofits, including Rotary International’s End Polio Now initiative. Lennox will perform on the floor of the Colosseum on Sunday, accompanied only by a piano, as part of the benefit. Political Cartoons View All 1148 Images“We are surrounded by beauty, by art and by history,” Cecchini said of Italy. And, of course, if you can have an event with an artist performing, the potential is that it gets a higher profile.

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☆ McConnell’s frozen moment renews questions about America’s aged leaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Also in the Senate, California’s Dianne Feinstein, 90, has been ill and displayed apparent cognitive decline in public in recent months. But given that Biden, McConnell and Feinstein are public officials, voters are entitled to a high level of transparency. Biden, for instance, would be 86 by the time his second term ends, which represents his biggest vulnerability in the 2024 election. Remarkably, in an age where major questions divide on party lines, 69% of Democrats shared that view. Should Biden, if he wins a second term, experience a similar moment to McConnell, questions about the continuity of US leadership would reverberate around the world and offer openings for US adversaries.

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