Word: botswana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Teach, having sent nearly 200 teachers to Kenya in two years, Rosen claims a share of success. "We're doing very well overall," she says. So much so that World Teach expanded this year to include missions in China, and soon in Botswana...
Paralleling the U.N.'s efforts, multilateral financial institutions have a crucial role to play. The World Bank, which lends money for Third World development projects, was long criticized by environmental groups for backing large, ecologically unsound programs -- a cattle-raising scheme in Botswana that led to overgrazing, for example. During the past few years, however, the World Bank has been seeking to factor environmental concerns into its programs. One product of this new approach is an environmental action plan for Madagascar. The 20-year plan, which will be drawn up jointly with the World Wide Fund for Nature, aims...
...pope was in Botswana yesterday and was expected in Lesotho today as part of a five-nation tour of southern Africa...
...that almost two-thirds of Americans 18 to 24 cannot point to France on an outline map? That 75% of adult Americans are unable to locate the Persian Gulf, where 39 American sailors have died in the past two years? That a few put the U.S. inside Australia or Botswana...
IMAGINE not being able to answer any of the questions in the Blue category--Geography--of Trivial Pursuit. Imagine being asked to find the Pacific Ocean on a map and pointing to the English Channel instead. Imagine confusing the Soviet Union's location with Botswana...