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On 7/18/2018 at 8:04 AM, 2user1cup said:

Not much you can do when 

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Researchers everywhere are at the mercy of government, but it’s particularly challenging here. So far, country policymakers across sub-Saharan Africa have been reluctant to see the value of the work and agree to put more money toward science. Rotimi, who is now 61 and considers H3Africa a lifetime achievement, is well aware that politics could sabotage the whole effort. “Bad government,” he says, “is probably the number one risk factor for health in Africa.”

 

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Someone called the cops thinking this man was robbing his own lemonade stand.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/23/it-took-this-black-man-years-to-open-his-lemonade-stand-then-someone-thought-he-was-robbing-it/?utm_term=.3ac860f5a709

 

He had arrived at the stand before 7 a.m. the next day to start squeezing lemons, but spent those first few minutes leaning against the building, on the phone with the alarm company. At some point, he saw a police car “cruising up the block,” he said. “I started to pay more attention to my surroundings, looking for anything that I need to not be a part of.”

Then two officers got out.

“They’re walking toward me . . . and I’m still looking for this crime scene,” he said. “Did something happen behind me? It didn’t hit me until the officer was in front of me like a foot away. I said ‘hey, did I set off the alarm system? If I did, my apologies, because I’m on the phone with the security company now.’

“They said ‘No, someone called and said there was a break in here.’ ”

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