| 'IEEE Spectrum' article, "Re-engineering Iraq," captures Grand Neal
New York"Re-engineering Iraq," a two-part series by IEEE Spectrum focusing on the struggle to reconstruct electrical networks in Iraq amid the fighting there, won the Grand Neal Award at Thursday's 53rd annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards.
The article, which appeared in the February and March issues of IEEE Spectrum, was written by Glenn Zorpette, executive editor of IEEE Media's IEEE Spectrum.
Zorpette was also selected by American Business Media as the winner of this year's McAllister Editorial Fellowship, which promotes the study of b-to-b media by having the recipient spend a week as an adviser to the Medill Magazine Project at Northwestern University.
The three runners-up for the Grand Neal included CSO's "The How-to Issue," published by IDG Corp.; the article "Recipe for Disaster" that appeared in The American Lawyer (ALM); and the September 2006 issue of Photo District News, which is published by Nielsen Business Media.
Vision on Wheels
Shankara Nethralaya's mobile van and spectacle dispensing unit is helping rural people to have a better vision, finds out Nayantara Som. Around 70 per cent of the Indian population lives in villages, but the extent to which the Indian healthcare has penetrated this section is questionable. In fact, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates reveal that 90 per cent of the world's blind people live in developing countries, of which seven million are each in India and China. Every five seconds, an adult is known to go blind, while a child goes blind every minute. Globally, there are 37 million people who are visually impaired, about 124 million more with significant loss of vision, of which 75 per cent of blindness is avoidable, either preventable or treatable. Estimates point out that the number of blind and visually impaired will double by 2020, unless action is taken.
Last December, this man saved the lives of a trainload of passengers
New Delhi, April 16: MAHENDER Singh may be 57 and may have had a cataract operation recently but he remains every bit as alert and quick as before as evidenced by the way he put his life at risk in December last year to save the lives of thousands of train passengers. Singh, who is a key man with the railways with the job of tightening keys or bolts on tracks between New Delhi Railway Station and Pragati Maidan, came to work on December 6, 2006 an hour before his 5 am reporting time because he misread the time on his clock at home. .
Car wash to help families of crash victims
A group of parents and teachers at John Cabrillo Preschool will hold a fundraiser this weekend for relatives of the three women and toddler killed Monday by a suspected drunken driver. The victims were on their way to pick up the baby's brother at the school when they were fatally struck. Volunteers will wash cars Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the school, 1141 Seamas Ave. in South Land Park, around the corner from where the accident occurred. Donations of any amount will be accepted to help the family of Brizchelle Rice, 21; Shanice Carter, 18; Brittanya Nash, 17; and Kamall Dino Savant Osby, 19 months old. .
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