Word: aid
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...calamity. It is astonishing that no one in the developed countries has had the courage to speak this truth. That would at least give those countries, likely not to survive, the knowledge that no help is coming. At least, then, they could desperately try find an alternative to outside aid...
...important discoveries in stem cell biology—provides seed grants for researchers.With the Bush administration restricting government funding to only experiments performed on pre-existing stem cell lines, researchers saw an opportunity for Harvard to become a pioneer in stem cell biology and quickly pressed administrators to aid the newly-emerging field. “Harvard and some other institutions at the time suggested that we needed to do what we could do to further this promising field and simultaneously work to try to resolve federal restrictions,” said Harvard’s chief lobbyist Kevin Casey...
...rally on Thursday following the ICCs indictment announcement, Bashir told a crowd that the aid groups had broken the law, though he did not say how. "We will act as a responsible government," he said, according to The Associated Press. "But we will be responsible and firm with anyone who tries to get at the stability, security in the country or whoever uses their position and presence in Sudan to violate the law, stability and security...
...Fighting in Darfur began in 2003 and an estimated 300,000 people have died since then. In addition, some 2.7 million have fled their homes, and about 2 million are almost entirely dependent on aid groups to survive. (See pictures of being under death's shadow in Darfur...
...Those that remain will find their work seriously hampered. The World Food Programme relies on four of the affected aid groups- Action Against Hunger, CARE, Save the Children U.S. and Solidarites- to distribute its food. "WFP and other humanitarian agencies simply don't have the capacity to take over their life-saving work. The total number of people who receive WFP food through the four NGOs is 1.1 million," the World Food Programme said in a statement...