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...malaria per year. The current report downgrades that figure to 247 million. Likewise, where the last report claimed that the disease kills "more than 1 million" people each year, the 2008 update, which is based on 2006 data (the most recent numbers available), suggests that figure is now closer...
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is one step closer to becoming the nation's first female prime minister since Golda Meir. The current prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has decided to resign following corruption allegations involving more than $150,000 in payments from a New York businessman. Livni, 50, has served in Israel's legislature, the Knesset, for less than a decade, but was effectively put on the path to the nation's highest office after claiming victory in Tuesday's primary...
Four years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Gustav and Ike have once again brought disaster relief closer to the fore of our national political consciousness. While the delay of the Republican National Convention unveiled a new level of care for the disaster victims, more attention still needs to be paid to these devastating natural events—not only here in the United States, but amongst our Caribbean neighbors as well. In Haiti, 800,000 people require immediate aid, while infrastructure has suffered an estimated $4 billion worth of damage from Hurricane Ike alone. In light of the magnitude...
...seems a world away from the tumult in New York City. But a giant TV screen in his office was tuned to CNBC, and he conceded that his personal worth may have taken a hit with the stocks slide, though he stressed that he was doing well with investments closer to home...
...very hard on issues that affect the lives and careers of FAS faculty, such as junior faculty mentoring and child care,” Pharr said.‘AN EASY DECISION’Having grown up in the Madison area, Martin attributed her move to wanting to live closer to family. But she added that Harvard did not offer her a better arrangement when she informed them of Wisconsin’s offer.“Obviously, leaving Harvard is a very tough thing to do,” she said this summer. “But honestly...