She is best recognized as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band 'Blondie', which was formed in the mid-1970s. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted at three months old by Richard Smith Harry and Catherine Peters, who raised her in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Her early ...
She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy, and is known by many as the first woman "public philosopher in the history of the United States".In the Progressive Era, when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified ...
“I am filled with pride and joy as I witness the historic moment of having Egypt recognized internationally as the first country to have achieved this remarkable progress towards eliminating the disease,” said WHO Representative in Egypt, Dr Naeema Al Gasseer. “I have witnessed first-hand the...
Bangladesh health systems financing is characterized by high out-of-pocket payments (63.3%), which is increasing. Hence, we aimed to see who pays what part of this high out-of-pocket expenditure. To our knowledge, this was the first progressivity analysis of health systems financing in ...
• United Telecom adopts the nationally recognized identity of its long distance unit, changing its name to Sprint Corporation.• 1993.• Following its merger with Centel Corporation, Sprint becomes the only major U.S. telecommunications company providing long distance, local and wireless services...
In Bangladesh, we are helping make mobile payments more accessible to drive financial inclusion, bringing a broad range of banking services to the previously unbanked. In Italy, our AI- and cloud-based acoustic monitoring systems are protecting a wetland in Grosseto, an oasis that is home to ...
(FGD2, Bangladesh, 51) Some service providers also recognized the vital nature of cultural mediation in services and described the actions they implemented to try and bolster cultural mediators’ presence and capacity within services. One key informant mentioned how their agency led “substantial exter...
The First Generation to Control Family Size: A Microstudy of the Causes of Fertility Decline in a Rural Area of Bangladesh In Bangladesh, the total fertility rate declined from more than six children per woman of reproductive age in 1980 to 3.3 children per woman in 1996. Much ... Bruce ...
As already noted, Linn is most recognized for her first project – the Vietnam War Memorial. Her vision for the monument is a testament to the power of simplicity, which immediately became a flashpoint for controversy. Veterans termed in the “black gash of shame” but the design prevailed,...
and the company is donating 20,000dollars in her name to a charity devoted to bringing clean water to schools in Bangladesh.On Sunday,the night before her work was revealed on net,Zhang told Newsday she was excited by the big win,but said she wouldn't be awake when her art first went...