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...price that is, finally, just right, according to Ali Al-Naimi, oil minister from Saudi Arabia, which produces about one-third of all OPEC oil. "The market is in very good shape," he told Reuters when he arrived in Vienna on Wednesday, Sept. 9. (See pictures of South Africa's oil-from-coal refinery...
...vocational training, is increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways of fighting poverty, disease, and even religious fundamentalism. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a point of visiting women’s organizations and talking with women about their lives during her summer trips to India and Africa. When she addressed members of SEWA in Mumbai in July, she noted, “We simply will not make progress in our world if we leave women behind.” As both Clinton and noted New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof emphasize, the world must pay attention...
...because of their gender. Sex-selective abortions continue to be a problem in many parts of India and China, and female literacy rates throughout the developing world are markedly lower than those of men. In traditionally patriarchal communities—not only in the Middle East but also in Africa and Asia—women are not permitted to leave their homes or show their faces in public. The United Nations International Labor Organization estimates that over 12 million women are working as sex slaves at any given time. Rather than letting these problems go unacknowledged, increasing focus on liberating...
...9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington - like those that preceded them in East Africa in 1998 and those that followed in London, Madrid, Bali and other places - were tactical successes in that they managed to kill hundreds of innocent people, grab the world's headlines and briefly dominate the nightmares of Western policymakers. But the strategy those attacks were a part of has proved to be fundamentally flawed. Terrorism departs from the rules of war by deliberately targeting the innocent, but it shares the basic motivational force of conventional warfare - "the pursuit of politics by other means...
That is, once you get there. Airlines have yet to add flights for the World Cup. (It's at least a 15-hour hop from the U.S.) Cohen cautions that travel to Africa isn't like anything else and that World Cup tourists should organize early and deal with reputable agents. Tickets are available through FIFA's second phase of sales, which runs until Nov. 16. U.S. Soccer's Neil Buethe says FIFA is allotting 12% of each stadium's seats to participating teams, and once the American team has qualified, fans should check ussoccer.com for more information. The next...