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As a result of the policy - which is named for the city in which the Reagan Administration first announced it at the 1984 United Nations International Conference on Population - some groups, including Planned Parenthood organizations in Romania and Colombia, altered their activities in order to qualify and continued to receive...
Planned Parenthood of Zambia, for example, has lost nearly a quarter of its funding and almost 40% of its staff because of the policy. The group still provides abortions, but the activities that have been affected by the loss of that aid are more diverse: pre- and postnatal care, early...
Even non-industrial groups not yet affected by the recession have kept the 35-hour week - or developed alternatives to it. Executives at the Paris headquarters of communications company Vivendi continue to work 35-hour weeks, or swap it for an arrangement in which extra hours worked can be exchanged...
Feb. 17 is the date of what people are calling the great digital switchover--or sometimes, kind of poetically, the "analog sunset." On that date, all full-power TV stations will be required to stop broadcasting analog TV signals and transmit only digital ones. Most people won't be affected...
In the months since the close of the past fiscal year, Harvard’s endowment has dropped from $37 billion to $29 billion. But according to the report itself, universities like Harvard may be less affected by the current recession.