Topic - poor

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Computers, Communications, Internet

Mobile Phones Narrow Digital Divide

But poor countries still lag the wealthy, UN agency reports.
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Computers, General news

Q&A: Nicholas Negroponte

The MIT Media Lab co-founder has a big plan to shrink the digital divide.
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Cleantech, Finance

Cleantech Empowers Poor

Social entrepreneurs tackle an electrifying problem: 1.6 billion people without light. Profiles: Michael Biddle, Mark Lawson-Statham, Markus Brehler, Conrad Burke, Bill Gross, John Halfpenny, and Richard Stromback.
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Biosciences

Milestone in Rice Gene Research

The completed sequence of the rice genome could help speed up the development of new varieties for the world’s poor.
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Archives

Prepare for a parade of poor earnings

This week's disappointing earnings reports brought the Fed rate-cut celebration to a halt. While the overall outlook is grim, strong sectors still shelter survivors.
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Archives

Poor man's Vindigo

Poor man's Vindigo
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Archives

Tech stocks enrich Standard and Poor's

With the addition of JDS Uniphase and Palm to its portfolio, the S & P 500 is starting to warm up to the tech sector.
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Archives

Poor AOL, AT&T disses it again

Poor AOL, AT&T disses it again
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Archives, Magazine

THE RICH -- AND POOR -- ARE GETTING RICHER

The picture we have of families in the lowest income bracket is deceptive.