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Far more worrisome than the loss of athletes and prestige is the loss of professionals that is occurring concurrently. Statistics show that sub-Saharan Africa has registered slower growth than any other region in the world, but this data fails to note that there are more African engineers in Europe...

Author: By Hillary M. Mutisya, | Title: A Nation Loses Its Professionals | 5/6/2005 | See Source »

EADS is not alone. In recent years foreign companies have streamed into American burgs to tint themselves red, white and blue enough to tempt the world's biggest shopper: the U.S. Department of Defense. The 25 countries of the European Union spend only about half what the U.S. does on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Foreign Policy | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

On first inspection, the election of a pope from a country and a continent where the churches are empty and vocations nearly non-existent seems illogicalprecisely the reaction of a society that has become untethered and has started the descent into nothingness. I must admit that the selection of Ratzinger...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Holding the Center | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

Gordimer spoke of Soyinka as “something absolutely indispensable to the African continent.” She then read from her story, “The Ultimate Safari,” an account of flight from the Mozambique Civil War, narrated by an eleven-year-old. The title...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureates Honor Wole Soyinka at IOP | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

And in one of the even more disheartening aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as the disease claims the lives of adults left and right, their children are often left as orphans—struggling to make it on their own or taken in by extended family already stretched thin by...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: Why Unite Against AIDS? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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