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...post-rock masterpiece “Millions Now Living Will Never Die.”Full album concerts experienced a surge in popularity over the past few years. Hogan explained that ATP started the full album trend with the Don’t Look Back concert series in Britain, which featured the Stooges performing “Funhouse,” and later Hogan personally convinced Sonic Youth to tour performing their 1988 album “Daydream Nation” in full. “We have started a trend. I don’t know if that?...
...with just 6.3 million people: women there have a 1 in 8 chance of dying in childbirth during their lifetime. The same miserable odds apply in Afghanistan. In the U.S., by contrast, the lifetime chance that a woman will die in childbirth is about 1 in 4,800; in Britain, 1 in 8,200; and in Sweden, 1 in 17,400. Deaths are heavily weighted to the poorest and most isolated in each country, which means that many politicians remain largely ignorant of the scale of the tragedy. "Often the people in the cities do not know what is happening...
...hyperinflation; according to the Kenya Standard, inflation rates now reach up to 20 million percent. Mugabe, as the chief decision-maker in Zimbabwe, has attempted reforms whose failed results he has blamed on indeterminable interference by Western states, such as Zimbabwe’s one-time colonizer, Great Britain. Amidst all this economic trouble, Zimbabwe continues to enforce strict restrictions on distribution of aid across the country. Any improvements for life in Zimbabwe will have to start by lifting these restrictions...
...With an agreement reached, it is now the United States’ turn to step up. A neutral state actor is needed to ensure that this new government can address economic problems in Zimbabwe with foreign aid. Great Britain has reacted skeptically to the political agreement, doubting whether it will cause actual changes. It has offered to help with financial resources once Zimbabwe demonstrates a certain degree of self-help, but Britain’s safe approach may miss an opportunity for international aid that America must not let slip. South Africa remains bound by its proximity and local trade...
...United States, however, shares none of these political constraints. Even though it is closely connected with Great Britain, a country whose connections to Zimbabwe remain strong, the United States never occupied Zimbabwe. Furthermore, since the United States relies less on trade with Africa than several other capable powers, such as China, the United States can approach negotiations to allow foreign aid as a neutral party interested on behalf of humanity...