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...Aiding Africa In your article "Pain Amid Plenty," you write that this year the U.S. will give more than $800 million to Ethiopia: $460 million for food, $350 million for HIV/AIDS treatment and $7 million for agricultural development [Aug. 18]. To put that amount of money in perspective, let's take a look at what we are currently spending on the war in Iraq: $100 billion a year, or $8 billion a month, which is $275 million a day. So we spend the equivalent of our entire foreign aid to Ethiopia for one year in less than three days...
...walls, and you see it from a rover-style truck. The animals might walk right up or lie low in some brush as a guide imparts PBS-worthy information ("Thomson's gazelles are fully grown at 60 lb."). For adults who can't afford a trip to Africa, it's a highly satisfying substitute...
They make up a "hidden community," AIDS experts say, usually prevalent in cultures where the social stigma attached to homosexuality is severe. In some cultures, sex between men is prohibited outright; in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in Africa, for example, gay sex is cause for execution, which drives many men underground and increases their likelihood of engaging in risky sex. Robert Gray, regional representative of Population Services International (PSI) Asia, an international NGO, predicts that this high-risk group will become a major driving force of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia, Eastern Europe and other places over the next...
...violent political deadlock and open the way to turning around an economy in free fall, there has been scant progress since talks began four weeks ago. A source within Zimbabwe's opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) who participated in the latest round of talks in South Africa - and who spoke on condition of anonymity - said Mugabe had offered his opponent the post of Prime Minister, which he said would be a powerful position. When the opposition leader demanded to know the specific powers Mugabe would concede to the new office, Mugabe replied that the Prime Minister would...
...deal. If the legitimacy of its government were even partially restored, the world could re-engage Zimbabwe and help end the economic crisis that has seen inflation spiral out of control, ruined all but the regime's elite and sent millions of refugees into neighboring Botswana, Zambia and South Africa. Economists predict recovery would be quick: though its currency is worthless, its farms moribund and its industry largely mothballed, Zimbabwe retains good heavy infrastructure, such as roads, buildings and airports. A deal would also signal the passing of an era for all Africa: Mugabe, the symbol of the generation that...