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Competition is intensifying. The Sahara is advancing steadily south, smothering soil with sand. Added to that - or perhaps explaining it - is global warming. In November 2006, the United Nations Climate Change Conference heard a warmer earth will put at risk the lives of 65 to 95 million Africans over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather Wars | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

My choice is single mothers and grandmothers, who provide the economics, love, health care, discipline and confidence to so many of the next generation around the world whom they are raising. A great example of their skill is our new President-elect. I've seen this phenomenon firsthand on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year. | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Though the descent ended in a face-plant, Sprague’s completion of the Antarctica marathon in March highlighted the global nature of her philanthropic mission to run a marathon on all seven continents. Beginning in Beijing in October 2006 and ending in Queensland, Australia this past July, Sprague...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Long Distance Runner Covers the Globe | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

For every marathon Sprague ran, her nonprofit organization—In the Running—raised money for one continent-specific grassroots charity that addresses humanitarian or environmental issues, such as the AIDS epidemic in Africa or the protection of Antarctic ecology.

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Long Distance Runner Covers the Globe | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

But deflation isn't just a U.S. anxiety. Japan, which emerged from deflation only earlier this decade, is now back in recession, has negligible inflation and could soon see prices fall again. So too in Europe, where the European Central Bank was behind the curve in seeing the risks to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Economy's Big Fear Becomes Real: Deflation | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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