"This is a no-dog community, " said Mr. Rose, a retired mailman from Hollywood, Fla.
WSJ: In Florida, These Retirees Deliver a First-Class Protest
"It stinks, " said Robert Riley, 89, a former mailman from Wrentham, Mass.
WSJ: In Florida, These Retirees Deliver a First-Class Protest
Joshua Mailman, a prolific seed investor focused on early-stage ventures working for a more just and sustainable world, has generated strong financial as well as social returns through impact investing.
"Never used them, " said Greg Stratton, a tanned and bearded retired mailman from Sauk Prairie, Wis.
WSJ: In Florida, These Retirees Deliver a First-Class Protest
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
As a writer working at home, the sound of the mailman driving by around 2:30 pm signals time to take a break, and I look forward to it.
The mailman had tucked the box underneath a bench by the front door.
Barefoot runners risk getting athlete's foot and plantar warts, says Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
"There have been a lot of studies that indicate that there are probably other mechanisms, " says the senior author of the New York City study, Robin Whyatt, DrPH, a professor of clinical environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Mailman suggests that novice investors check out the Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund that invests in innovative leaders and social enterprises throughout the developing world, and TONIIC, a network of investors, entrepreneurs, funds and thought-leaders working to provide early-stage funding for global social enterprises.
But Columbia University Professor Ian Lipkin, of the Mailman School of Public Health's Centre for Infection and Immunity, a scientific adviser on Contagion, is not convinced that crowdsourcing is an effective way to combat the spread of contagious diseases.
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