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...Acción has probably gotten closer to self-sufficiency than any other microlender by using technology and partnerships to boost efficiency. Acción Texas now underwrites loans for 12 different microfinance organizations, a pooling of talent designed to help all the groups more quickly remove their dependence on grants and community-reinvestment money...
...become Barack Obama's National Security Adviser amid the worst violence between Palestinians and Israelis in eight years, and the prospects for peace seem bleaker than ever. But before the new Administration can pursue its own lofty hopes for Middle East peace, Jones will have to meet some goals closer to home. After eight years in which U.S. foreign policy often seemed the private preserve of the Vice President or an endless grudge match between State and Defense, Obama has asked Jones to rebuild a National Security Council that sorts out foreign policy disputes rather than skirts them...
...coincided with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants, Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the subsequent war against Hizballah in southern Lebanon. "My lament, shared by everybody around here, is that even with this latest bloodletting, it doesn't appear that Israelis and Palestinians are coming closer to an understanding, not even one based on sheer exhaustion," McGirk says...
...Gaza offensive has greatly weakened Israel's few Arab allies. Moderate Arab countries that were edging closer to recognition of the Jewish state are now recoiling from what they see as the slaughter of fellow Arabs in Gaza. In Egypt, pro-Gaza protests turned into thinly veiled attacks on President Hosni Mubarak's rule, which has helped maintain the blockade of Gaza. The pressure may force Mubarak to support a truce that entails opening the Egypt-Gaza border as Hamas demands, but he is unlikely to soften his position on the Palestinian group that maintains links with Egyptian Islamists...
...Winickoff said. “But we needed a way to capture the idea that just because the smoke wasn’t visible, it was still harmful.†Crawling babies and toddlers are especially susceptible to third-hand smoke, as they tend to be closer to contaminated surfaces, Winickoff explained. He added that because children weigh less, toxins that they inhale affect them more than they do adults. Winickoff and his colleagues collected their data through a national random-digit-dial telephone survey from September to November 2005. Their analysis of the gathered data revealed that...