Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those are America's 21st century foes, Gore has been training for decades to take them on. He was worrying about global warming back in college, when it was still more a theory than a real threat. His interest in stabilizing post-apartheid South Africa has drawn him to the problems of goat farmers and ways of bringing clean water and solar power to remote villages. In 1994 he ordered the CIA to find out why countries fall apart. After feeding 2 million facts and figures from about 113 instances of national collapse into its computers, the intelligence agency came...
...Wild Wild West had to be big. As it turns out, big was an understatement. The final product is seven minutes long, and features 40 dancers, action sequences scored by a 50-piece orchestra and cameos by Stevie Wonder, Babyface, Enrique Iglesias and a group of tarantulas imported from Africa. "I've been working on this since December and sleeping in the editing bay the past three nights," Hunter said last week as he rushed to finish the video in time for its debut this week. Maybe next time he should consider vacationing in Kansas...
...October 1997, Jackson was appointed by President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright to be special envoy of the president and secretary of state for the promotion of democracy in Africa...
...October 1997, Jackson was appointed by President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright to be special envoy of the president and secretary of state for the promotion of democracy in Africa...
...Born Feb. 23 in Great Barrington, Mass. 1909 Helps found the N.A.A.C.P. 1910-62 Fights racial discrimination in the U.S. 1919-45 Backs Pan-Africa movement 1963 Dies in Ghana