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Having helped build or repair 27 schools in north-central Afghanistan over the past six years, I can verify that education is a building block to eliminating poverty, oppression and extremism [Jan. 28]. I have seen remarkable social, political and economic changes in the more than 20,000 children my project represents, particularly the girls. They are marrying later and having fewer offspring. Children are learning much needed life skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Children...
...recent paper from Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute proposes a mechanism by which “broadly neutralizing antibodies” (BNAs) can block an HIV infection. The paper is published in the January issue of Immunity magazine...
...forced to play from behind throughout the second game, when the Pride took an early 8-2 lead. The Crimson showed signs of a comeback by responding with a 7-1 run. The scoring streak closed the gap and tied the game up at nine with a solid block by Weintraub, who also completed one solo block and two block assists against Springfield. But the Pride quickly found their rhythm again, setting off on a run that left Harvard in a nine-point hole. It was too much for the Crimson who couldn’t recover and succumbed...
...positive spin on the night, pointing to Huckabee's significant weaknesses as a serious rival to McCain. "We can make an electability argument that Mike Huckabee can't," said Kevin Madden. "He is limited in his regional appeal." Indeed, Huckabee has yet to garner a significant block of votes outside his mostly evangelical base, which is heavily concentrated in the South...
...letter obtained by TIME, Bush's Environmental Protection Agency moved to block a $220 million Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project in the Mississippi Delta, laying the groundwork for the first EPA veto of an Army Corps project since 1990. And the project is arguably the most ecologically destructive Army Corps boondoggle on the books today, which is saying something. It would build the world's largest hydraulic pump to protect a sparsely populated area dominated by soybean fields from Yazoo River flooding, and it would drain or degrade enough wetlands to cover all five boroughs of New York...