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...expects to distribute some $600 million in aid in 2008, making it one of the largest NGOs in the world. Contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development and funds from private donors are enabling it to build roads in Afghanistan and provide grants to small businesses in Iraq, among other projects...
Apart from their constitutionality, of course, the other question surrounding curfews is whether they are effective. Bernard Harcourt, author of Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy, argues that good police work is the better answer. He compares imposing curfew ordinances to "using a Band-Aid on a patient who is hemorrhaging - you might be able to stop the blood flow in one spot, but it's not going to help the bleeding." Problems like drug use, gun possession and gang membership, he insists, won't go away "just because you force youths to stay at home...
...pulling himself and his wheelchair 20m in the air by rope and pulley to light the Olympic cauldron. But to Song Yanan the highlight was the moment when Ping Yali, who as a blind long jumper became China's first Paralympic champion in 1984, carried the flame with the aid of a guide dog named Lucky. "I couldn't take my eyes off them," says Song. "I was really excited, and also a little nervous. There were so many people, and so much noise. But they did great. Yali did great; Lucky did great...
...Forbidden City, which has long been impassable for wheelchair users, installed $585,000 worth of ramps and lifts ahead of the Paralympics, the China Daily reported. And in recent years, large cities like Beijing have been filled with miles of yellow sidewalk markers with special raised patterns to aid blind pedestrians...
...civil unrest may seem a reach, but Morales knows where his people's hearts lie. In 2002, when the former coca farmer first ran for President, the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia at the time, Manuel Rocha, made an off-the-cuff threat that Washington would withdraw millions of aid dollars should Morales win. Morales was an underdog at the time, but the threat drove his numbers through the roof - such is the anti-Yanqui sentiment in Bolivia. Indeed, some observers say it was Rocha's slip-up that forced a run-off between Morales and the eventual winner, Gonzalo Sanchez...