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...classifieds," says Craig Donato, founder and CEO of Oodle, which doubled the number of monthly visitors to its site over the past year to nearly two million. The San Mateo, Calif., company with 50 employees and some $19 million in venture capital funding recently made headlines for its deal to host classifieds on walmart.com. Once just a search site that scraped listings from across the Web, Oodle has now partnered with some 200 businesses, including newspapers like the San Diego Tribune and the armed services site Military.com, to power their Web classifieds...
...roads, unpredictable weather and political instability. After Kenya's disputed election in December, a U.S. shipment of 9,000 metric tons of sorghum was blocked for more than 100 days in Mombasa, with no safe way to get it out, Kidane says. Violence returned to Burundi after a ceasefire deal failed, so WFP must postpone plans to stop feeding Burundian refugees in Tanzania. WFP is sometimes a target of violence too. Darfur rations were cut by nearly half in May because too many trucks had been hijacked. Distribution was suspended briefly in Karamoja last year after cattle rustlers ambushed...
...Lyon and Martin nuptials Monday evening, Newsom took a break from what he described as the increasingly electric atmosphere around city hall to worry about what the fall might bring. "There is just a great sense of pride here this afternoon," Newsom told TIME. "But there is a great deal of trepidation, concern and worry...
...East peace settlement; in bringing hope to Africa; in working for a free-trade world." This would be an impressive roster of achievements by most lights, but Bush felt the need to claim a further garland. "One of the things that I will leave behind is a multilateralism to deal with tyrants, so problems can be solved diplomatically," he said...
...with a membership that has burgeoned to 27. Yet decision-making has improved in some cases, as officials and ministers adapt to their new numbers. Indeed, the Czech government, which will take over the E.U. presidency on January 1, 2009, has already prepared a provisional plan on how to deal with a "no" vote by working within the E.U.'s existing structures...