Learning From Failure - NYTimes.com "Americans love success stories," Sam Loewenberg wrote in the International Herald Tribune. But 'success stories' are rarely the whole story. Global health and development projects "frequently go off course, and it's not unusual for them to fail outright," he wrote. For researchers to openly discuss their failures is "unusual." So it was a pleasant surprise when, last summer, researchers at Mumbai's City Initiative for Newborn Health published, in the journal PLoS Medicine, "the disappointing results of their three-year effort to implement a community-based maternal- and infant-health initiative in the city's slums," he wrote.