Word: africas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When U.S. embassies in Africa were car-bombed last August, Clinton sent the Tomahawks after the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. Navy launched about 80 of them--at $750,000 each, that's some $60 million. What bang did Clinton get for his bucks? The missiles tore up some sheds and shacks at a training area in Afghanistan and demolished a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which might or might not have been producing nerve-gas ingredients. The Tomahawks did not severely disrupt the bin Laden operation. But they gave the Administration the appearance of taking action...
...very little child abuse. And little extramarital sex--at least, compared with the possibilities offered by modern anonymity. In parts of Liverpool, England, blood tests showed that 1 in 4 kids had a biological father other than the father of record. Among the !Kung San hunter-gatherers of Africa, the figure was just 1 in 50--and that was without modern contraceptive technology...
Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), has been called in by representatives from Central America, South America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia...
...Milosevic] closed down schools," Skrabalo said. "It was the same thing as Apartheid [in South Africa,] just that the origin counted, not the race...
Within the past 20 years, Arboretum staff has joined in expeditions to the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, North Africa and regions of North America in search of plants for the Arboretum's collections. However, the staff concentrates mostly on collecting plants from the Boston region. Many of the accessions are the original plant introductions into North America from eastern Asia. All plants and trees are labeled...