Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for popularizing microcredit, loans as small as $5 that help people -- almost all women -- start businesses and escape poverty.

Now, Yunus, whose Grameen Bank has lent more than $6 billion to nearly 8 million people in his native Bangladesh alone, is putting forward a new idea: "social business." In his new book, "The End of Poverty," he argues that instead of measuring financial profits, social businesses would measure success by their positive social impact and, ultimately, help wipe out poverty.

In an interview with the Tribune, Yunus put forward his ideas. An edited transcript follows.

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KY's first tornado to be ranked on NOAA's new enhanced Fujita Scale (Todd Co. on March 1st)

I asked my colleagues, Chris Allen and Matt Stephens, to assist me in picking the year's top weather events. Now before I get into who placed what event in what number, I should stress that there is a good bit of subjectivity involved in the individual ratings. Think of two NFL referees making a call on a big play...one thinking "touchdown" while the other contends the player may have been "out of bounds".

Peterson a full-time Dirtbag

He played in the prestigious Cape Cod League and earned all-league honors, leading the league in hits, 52, in 42 games while hitting .338 with a .436 on-base percentage.

"I pretty much took what I finished with (at Long Beach) and carried it into the summer," he said. "All I did was play first base and right field. The first half of the summer, I had a lot of extra-base hits.

"I lifted more in the off-season and I feel a lot stronger and more capable of driving the ball into the gaps."

Peterson had some prodigious swings last season, coming close twice to putting a ball over the center-field fence at Blair in a night game. At 400-feet away, with a persistent breeze to left and in the thick marine night air, that's an achievement as rare as a triple play.

At 6-0 and 200, he may always be more of a hit machine than a pure home run hitter.

2/7 TNA Impact Hitlist: Roode's Promo, Misty on a Pole, Lame Gimmicks ...

I really hope TNA isn't stupid enough to do another Feast or Fired ever. 4 Corner Capture Misty Match: If I ever get a chance to argue in front of a judge that TNA should do fewer gimmick matches, I will use this match as evidence. The concept of this match was ridiculous. The fact that this match came from Kaz added to its stupidity. He should want major revenge on Black Reign. If that is the case, then why come up with this lame match instead of a match where he could really get revenge. Why does he even want the stupid rat? Shouldn't he want to hurt Black Reign, not just try to win the rat that he already had possession of? What was in it for Kaz? And in the end, the match didn't even matter as Black Reign simply beat Kaz up and stole the rat that Kaz had rightly won. The concept of this match was terribly silly, which is a shame, because the actual wrestling in the match was decent.

Phillies' closer Lidge says his knee is healthy

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Somewhere in Haddonfield, N.J., sits a suburban house with a ballplayer's wife and a 3-year-old daughter. It's a nice place, Brad Lidge says. Safe, quiet and comfortable, yet not so big that his wife gets lost when he is on the road.

Lidge is happy with it. But know this: He's renting.

Yes, the stakes surrounding Lidge's performance this season are as high as the elevations in his native Colorado, and he acknowledged it by arriving 3 full days before the first official workout of this Phillies spring training. He is in a contract year, with a surgically repaired right knee, coming off a disappointing end to his 6-year career in Houston.