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...bitterly ironic that the policies of privatization and the free-market system forced on Africa by the Western-controlled World Bank and IMF (that have devastated many African countries) are now being reversed in the U.S. Whereas poor, suffering Americans need to be protected from the full consequences of their free-market principles (which should allow AIG, GM and the rest of them to fail), Africans were afforded no such protection - presumably because they don't vote in U.S. elections. Alex Potter, CLAREMONT, SOUTH AFRICA...
...success of the experiment made it all worthwhile. Over the course of each evening, Langford watched the earthshine brighten dramatically when sunlight bounced off the Indian Ocean and dim as the African continent rotated into view. The implications for the exoplanet search are profound: If we can see the effect in earthshine, we might also see it in the light of distant world...
...House’s speaker-series, “Conversations with Kirkland.” Logan, who is currently a correspondent for 60 Minutes and CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, focused on several events in her life that she said have shaped the way she reports. The South African-born journalist stressed the importance of her upbringing during the apartheid era, comparing the period to the time during the American Constitution’s formation. “I saw what it really means to fight for democracy,” she said. “The lessons were...
...Ginza Samba, Pinsky said that he likes the “eclectic nature of the American culture” that is conferred by the poem’s title. Ginza refers to an area of Tokyo, while the multicultural Brazilian music genre Samba, which also rings of African religion, culture and dance. Palay said he invited Pinsky to the reading partly because he remembered being impressed by hearing the former poet laureate read during high school. “I just like the way he reads more than anything. He’s a good poet, too, and just...
...without licenses, for the better part of two decades, the U.N. says. They often fly flags of convenience from sea-faring friendly nations like Belize and Bahrain, which further helps the ships skirt international regulations and evade censure from their home countries. Tsuma Charo of the Nairobi-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, which monitors Somali pirate attacks and liaises with the hostage takers and the captured crews, says "illegal trawling has fed the piracy problem." In the early days of Somali piracy, those who seized trawlers without licenses could count on a quick ransom payment, since the boat owners...