Word: continentally
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If Africa is to be truly free, if - decades after throwing off colonial rule - it is now to escape poverty, corruption and autocracy, it needs a second, quiet revolution. The repression and electoral theft in Zimbabwe, the riots and civilian coup in Kenya in January, both suggest that the worst...
The Fruits of Labor No sector illustrates the squandered opportunities of Med trade better than agriculture. Though plagued by poor management in North Africa and market-distorting subsidies in Europe, farming is ripe with possibilities. If they are not taken advantage of, however, the consequences are plain: farmworkers in North...
British universities have been even busier than those on the Continent in responding to the challenge from the U.S., but the private funding gap remains enormous. While U.S. public investment in higher education, relative to GDP, is similar to that of the U.K., eye-popping tuition fees and generous philanthropists...
But it's a tough place for trailblazers, as other local tourist attractions attest. Nearby are the graves of explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, who died of sickness and starvation in 1861 on their way back to Melbourne after crossing the continent from south to north...
It was early evening in Grand Tower, Ill., and Josh Franklin, 23, was standing outside his aunt's double-wide trailer. He'd like to move away from this community of 585 people to Carbondale, a college town about half an hour's drive to the north. But he can...