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...adopted a strict approach against drug trafficking and related crime shortly after it came to power in 2000. In reaction to new policies, particularly President Felipe Calderon’s two-year-old crackdown on drug trafficking violence, noncombatant deaths—numbered at 3,000 since January 2008??have risen significantly...
...city’s pay-as-you-go pension program, administered by the Cambridge Retirement System, covers employees for the City of Cambridge, the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Housing Authority, and the Redevelopment Authority. Each year, the city allocates part of its budget—$26 million in 2008??to pay the pensions of current retirees...
...more determined to make this idea a reality.”Nineteen years later, Kopp’s dream has not only been realized, but has gained recognition and respect. This year, BusinessWeek named TFA one of the best places to launch a career, Kopp was named one of 2008??s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, and Education Week wrote about two TFA alumni who advised the Obama campaign.Last year Teach for America received a record number of 24,700 applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected and joined the program. Thirty-three of them...
...Lebone aims to work with other groups to bring its technology to developing countries. Over the next 18 months, the group’s founders hope to finalize the technology with support from the World Bank—they were one of the winners of its Lighting Africa Competition 2008??and a private donor, so that they have a final product ready to distribute...
...diverse reality that “Faces of 2008?? captured is a new reality for the United States, and the Democratic Party is changing in lockstep. The year 2000 marked the first time that US census respondents could identify themselves as being multiple races. The changing nature of identity in America is manifested in both the Democratic frontrunner and, more importantly, by the party supporting him. True, Obama is the hardest Democratic candidate to define in history. By some measures, Obama is white and black, rich and poor, at home in elite institutions and on the streets...