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...There are other reasons for India's ill health. Over the past decade or so, funding for public-health initiatives such as immunization drives and programs to control the spread of communicable diseases has been cut; some critics blame shifting government priorities. One of the best ways a country can improve its health, for instance, is by making sure its children are immunized against measles, polio and other life-threatening illnesses. But immunization rates in India are significantly lower than in other developing nations such as Bangladesh, China and Indonesia. Just 43.5% of very young children are fully immunized...
...tired of the blame game. It’s not the white man in Kenya chopping people up. It’s not the white man in Togo stealing from the poor. It’s the neocolonialists, the African elite,” Delle said. “Only when a model of development puts the common African at the epicenter will we change anything...
...isolated from other adults who criticize his mother’s parenting. In an effort to find himself, Ares experiments with rebellion and turns to a new friendship with Kevin, a boy just released from a juvenile rehabilitation center. Ultimately, Kevin ends up dead and Ares takes the blame for a murder he did not commit, all to save the brother whose care he once resented. As far as coming-of-age tales go, “The God of War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions...
...though, another parent is the last thing they need.Subjected to just as many—if not more—jokes as these child actors are their parents, the “Stage Moms and Dads.” These scary fanatics should bear a large portion of the blame along with Burton. People like Joe Simpson, Jessica Simpson’s father, push their kids to unbearable limits for success, manipulating their children’s lives and then trying to share the spotlight.With post-childhood disasters like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears dominating the celebrity news, it?...
...illuminate Les Savy Fav’s enigmatic lyrics, but compounding elusive distraction upon elusive distraction is half the fun of indie music. The absolute inscrutability of lyrics such as “Quart doesn’t burn / Rust doesn’t hum / Maybe we should blame it on the structures of the sun” is just the sort of thing that inspires hipster high school students to their deepest moments of literary analysis. Matched with the ludicrous but amusing image of a cartoon wolf playing erotic Twister in his briefs, Les Savy Fav?...