Word: asia
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...compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many, his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia. Kripke explains...
...January, reaching $1,000 per metric ton last month in India. Wheat has doubled in price in a year and jumped 25% in just one day in February. Reeling from sticker shock, tens of thousands of people have stormed the streets in protest across the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia, demanding that their governments offer relief. They have found bloodshed instead. More than 24 people were killed in Cameroon during food riots in February; five more died in Haiti in March, and two more were killed in protests in Somalia last month...
...largest firms operating in the most profitable countries. According to CGAP, 75% of cross-border funds go to Latin America and Eastern Europe, the world's most developed microfinance markets--the low-hanging fruit. That could leave out the poorest of the world's poor, who are predominantly in Asia and Africa. Says Alex Counts, CEO of the nonprofit Grameen Foundation, which helps develop microfinance institutions: "You might need to invent the microfinance industry all over again...
...saying it is politically motivated. True as that might be, the party has also refused to do anything to allay secular concerns about its ultimate vision on what role, if any, Islam should play in the public life of a rapidly modernizing country on the cusp of Europe and Asia...
...Today, Harvard students study Asia, Africa, and South America not because of these regions’ potential to create “trouble” (oh, those pesky non-whites!) or to be used as communist pawns, but because the University recognizes the inherent value in understanding “non-Western” cultures and histories. The class of 2008’s graduates had the option to concentrate in African and African American studies, East Asian languages and civilizations, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, and Sanskrit and Indian studies. But what is still missing from Harvard?...