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...majority to overturn the ban. For whaling opponents, however, the vote was an ominous sign of Japan's power over the IWC--and of its willingness to use strong-arm tactics and not-so-subtle bribery to get its way. Japan has reportedly showered more than $100 million in aid in recent years on island nations that it has persuaded to back its pro-whaling positions...
...hungriest, two infants died last year. This season, Salou fears they may lose more. A year after the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered in Scotland to work out a deal to help Africa, the results are still in the balance. The deal - a doubling of aid for the continent by 2010 and debt cancellation for eligible, heavily indebted poor countries, most of them African - was hailed as a breakthrough. For a brief moment, to the sounds of a global rock concert and British [an error occurred while processing this directive] Prime Minister Tony Blair's optimism...
Harvard University will increase its aid for childcare services by $7.5 million in an attempt to boost the number of females among the senior faculty, according to a report released June 13 by the Senior Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds, but some professors wonder whether the attempts to improve childcare fully address the problems faced by female faculty members...
...Woody M. Collins Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. time's story was a concise and accurate picture of the world's most lethal conflict since World War II. For more than a century, Congo has endured slavery, poverty and destruction. And the end is not in sight. Along with humanitarian aid, there must be diplomatic reconciliation between Congo's east and west, scholarships for young Congolese people to study in Europe and the U.S., and firm agreements among Congo's neighboring nations to keep their armies away. As the story noted, elections will be nearly impossible at this juncture. But at least...
...some appear to be looking for a way out. Negotiators involved in the proposed power-sharing plan between Hamas and Fatah say it would allow Hamas to countenance past agreements with Israel pushed by Abbas. And it might persuade the U.S. and other international donors to un-freeze aid to the Palestinians. Over 160,000 government workers haven't received salaries for nearly four months, and Hamas officials are reduced to smuggling in suitcases of cash across the border from Egypt to pay for emergencies. A hastily arranged marriage could be the Palestinians' last chance to avert a civil...