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...AFRICA AID $60 billion Amount that leaders at the recent G-8 summit said they would donate to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa $30 billion Amount of that aid that had already been promised by the U.S.; critics complain that little new money was pledged at the meeting...
...AFRICA AID $60 billion At the recent G-8 summit, amount that leaders pledged to deliver to Africa to fight AIDS, malaria...
...Percentage of the aid package that is "new money," as $30 billion had already been announced by the U.S. government and most of the remainder would come from existing aid earmarks...
...danger, they argue, is from states that are too dysfunctional to educate their people, provide public health or control their territory--and thus export a swarm of pathologies, from jihadist terrorism to loose nukes to bird flu. It's no surprise that Edwards and Obama want to boost foreign aid. They believe the poor world threatens the U.S. more than the rich...
When you write about technology, you see a lot of demos, demo being the industry term for when an executive demonstrates a new product for an audience, usually with the aid of a nervous tech-support guy. Under the emotional stress of the moment, the product quite often vomits data and dies. But not always. The two best demos I've seen this year were from two very different companies, Apple and Microsoft, and oddly enough, they were in many ways demos of the same product. One is a gimme: the iPhone, Apple's brilliant deconstruction of the common cell...