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...What to do with a problem like child care? An estimated 175,000 children are waiting for places around Australia, and demand keeps growing - three-quarters of a million children attended some form of care in 2004, 10,000 more than the year before. Pregnant women are urged to enrol their unborn offspring for a day-care place a year or two ahead of time - often paying a fee to join a waiting list - only to be told by apologetic center staff, "We'll let you know." And it's getting more and more expensive: the price of child care...
...financing over 1,700 fellows in 60 countries, according to the organization’s website. Despite the progress, over the last 25 years in the social sector, Drayton said that this market is still largely underdeveloped. “If you were to look at a supply and demand diagram, there is very high demand with low supply,” Drayton said. He says that the importance of this sector is largely the result of enormous global inequality. “Since the agricultural revolution, only three percent of the world’s people have been...
...neck and was whipped around the stage in a circle. The Tabla Ensemble, a group of four drummers, combined spoken word lyrics with pulsating rhythms. Sketches satirizing Indian culture bookended acts like the Raas Gujarati dance, which was performed with sticks. Tickets for Ghungroo were in high demand. The Saturday night performance was sold out in less than two days, according to Ghungroo co-producer and SAA co-president Arjun Vasan ’07. “This was the fastest selling Ghungroo ever,” said Ghungroo House Manager Vikas V. Mouli ’09. Some...
...painful consequences," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has stressed that sanctions were unlikely to be an immediate option. So, even if the matter does get to the Security Council in the coming weeks, Iran will likely be given a new deadline to comply with a more forceful international demand...
...decided to stock the controversial emergency contraceptive Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, in all its more than 3,700 pharmacies nationwide beginning March 20. The company has never publicly objected to the drug and says it chose not to carry Plan B because of low demand. But after being forced by Massachusetts and Illinois to stock the pills in those states, Wal-Mart concluded that wasn't a battle worth waging anywhere else. "Rather than try to fight these [bouts] state by state, it just seemed like the right time to begin to sell emergency contraceptives...