Steven Phillips of Exxon Mobil (a board member of Roll Back Malaria) notes that his oil firm makes the pesticide used in bed nets woven in Tanzania and its filling stations could hand them out.

ECONOMIST: America and malaria

Late one night, he on the bed, I on the floor, the room as black as a well and filling up with the smell of whiskey, Taleb suddenly spoke.

NEWYORKER: Naima