Where the Streets Have No Name

Earlier this week I Activated Bill Gates, whose foundation is providing more than $258 million in grants to help find ways to prevent and treat malaria.

Today I read Jann Wenner's interview with Bono in Rolling Stone (November 3, 2005), and this is what Bono had to say:

"A prominent head of state said to me if we really believed that these people in the developing world were equal, there is no way that we could allow 3,000 Africans, mostly children, to die every day from mosquito bites while we have the medicines and technology that could save their lives. It's as absurd as separate drinking fountains for blacks in the 1950s. It's racism disguised by distance."

Then I noticed over on SwimBikeRun St. Louis that there is a World Swim For Malaria on Saturday, December 3. I knew there could be a tie-in to this blog's focus!