Word: africas
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...very incomplete." Even in Costa Rica, President Oscar Arias is elbowing for greater executive powers while weakening his country's famously strong environmental standards. The region's health - half of all Guatemalan children under age 5 suffer chronic malnutrition - and its education levels remain pathetically low. Only Africa has a worse regional literacy rate...
...protect Ulu Masen from illegal loggers and poachers, who greedily eye its valuable hardwoods and teeming wildlife: elephants, gibbons, tigers, leopards, bears, pythons and scaly anteaters. The rangers' work might seem remote from the modern world, but it has implications far beyond Ulu Masen's frontiers - from Africa and the Amazon, which along with Indonesia are home to what's left of our rain forests, to the meeting rooms of Copenhagen, where thousands of delegates will arrive for next month's historic climate-change conference. (See heroes of the environment...
...Tuna has long been a standard item on my shopping list. Not anymore! A small contribution to conservation, perhaps, but one by one we may make a difference. Thank you TIME for regularly waking your readers up to the planet's predicament. Cilla Geldenhuys, Witsand, South Africa...
...Sarah Palin's offer to help in Virginia and New Jersey was declined by gubernatorial winners Robert McDonnell and Chris Christie, and her avowed congressional candidate, Doug Hoffman, lost in a previously unlosable Republican district. It is, after all, hard to support a person who doesn't know if Africa is a continent or a country. More good news like this, and I might rejoin the party I abandoned...
...erecting thousands of skyscrapers. And the same Chinese who snap up copies of China Is Not Happy seek business deals with American companies, crave access to U.S. intellectual property and hunger for the brand-name goods produced by American multinationals. (See pictures of China's economic expansion into Africa...