Word: burkina
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...tripled since the start of 2004. These food-price increases combined with soaring energy costs will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even undermine political stability, as evidenced by the protest riots that have erupted in places like Haiti, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. Practical solutions to these growing woes do exist, but we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally...
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...week crash course in tropical medicine. At the end of their medical marathon, they will be trading the steamy urban comforts of Texas for the hothouse that is Africa; some are headed to the southern tip of the continent, to Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland, others to the west, to Burkina Faso, while another bunch is destined for the east, to Malawi and Tanzania. Before they go, however, they need to learn an entirely new kind of medicine, and become familiar with parasites, pests and pustules the likes of which they have never seen in their few years as doctors...
...equally important breakthrough came the next day when he flew to his father, who was on a state visit to Burkina Faso, and received his blessing for the initiative. "I will see if we can be friends," he quotes his father saying over a lamb and rice lunch. Gaddafi dispatched foreign intelligence chief Musa Kusa to Geneva in mid-April for a meeting with top MI6 and CIA officials, who traveled secretly to Tripoli in September for a face-to-face with Gaddafi himself. The Libyans agreed in principle to throw its WMD projects wide open...