Word: aids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Many more deaths are likely to occur not with the crack of gunfire but from grinding hunger, experts warn. Scrambling to avert that grim scenario, aid officials and political leaders from about 40 countries converged this week at the Rome headquarters of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to craft a rescue plan for the world's food supplies. By all accounts, they have arrived late to the crisis. The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) calls this emergency a "silent tsunami" that could have dire consequences for more than 100 million of the world's poor...
...Until now, aid agencies have been hard pressed to respond. The WFP says soaring food costs and supply-chain disruptions have dented its ability to distribute food to the hungry. The organization bought a record $667 million worth of food for donations last year; about 80% of that was spent in developing countries to buy produce from small farmers. But even farmers in poor countries are holding out for more money. Traders in Cambodia and Sri Lanka recently broke agreements to sell rice to the WFP because they "preferred to sell it where prices were higher," says WFP spokeswoman Brenda...
This is an experiment, of course, but it tells us a lot about the power of niches and self-sorting. Countless students (and others) are exercising their freedom of choice, with the aid of new technologies, to replicate the Colorado experiment. On the Internet and on campus, they sort themselves into groups of like-minded types. People fence in, and fence out, both topics and points of view. In fact, the Internet is producing fascinating variations on the Colorado experiment every...
...while his tenure fleshed out the plan for a new Allston campus, jump started the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and saw the greatest undergraduate financial aid initiative in Harvard’s history, it also ended with chaos and, ultimately, his resignation, as the Faculty decried their removal from the decision-making process...
...amazing in some respects and limited in other ways,” HRDC president Allison B. Kline ’09 said. While she said she appreciates the experience she’s gained by being thrown into administration, production, and design duties, Kline said she would prefer more aid from the University in gradually acquiring those skills...