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...designed to fight the deeper roots of hunger. (Within the U.N. that task falls to other agencies, like the Food and Agriculture Organization and the U.N. Development Program.) But WFP can help. Its Food for Assets plan gives rations to displaced persons in northern Uganda who work to build and run local fish farms. Procurement officers can buy locally at above-market prices if they show that it helps to develop the country's agriculture. And, across the world, WFP feeds about 20 million schoolchildren each year. That service is designed both to help students concentrate in class...
...vacuum. It occurred in an era in which fashion models have got thinner and thinner, the tolerance for even a little flab has grown lower and lower, and the rates of eating disorders like anorexia have climbed higher and higher. In that environment, children and adolescents trying to develop a healthy--and realistic--body image have almost no chance...
...story on how to solve the energy crisis, Jeffrey D. Sachs says President George W. Bush "dithered for eight years instead of investing in new technologies for a sustainable planet" [June 9]. This year alone, the Bush Administration will dedicate more than $5 billion to research, develop and promote technologies including low-emission coal, renewables, nuclear power and vehicles powered by advanced biofuels, electricity and hydrogen. More than $40 billion in loan guarantees will help put such technologies to use. The President's 2009 budget calls for nearly $1 billion in public and private investment for the world's most...
Your article was absolutely on target. It is essential that the U.S. develop new sustainable sources of nonpolluting energy. You have made clear the interrelationships among the availability of that energy and international politics (and the need for the U.S. to operate without one hand tied behind its back), the environment and the world economy. A Manhattan Project--level effort is needed. Time is running out. Donald J. Loundy, CARLSBAD, CALIF...
...kids, however, have the same gifts. Benasich has found that some children fall out of the word-break race at about 70 milliseconds. Find the kids who later develop reading or speech disabilities, and they may also turn out to be the ones who had trouble keeping up with the sounds. "If you can't make a precise phonological map of a word," Benasich says, "you can't recognize it or reproduce it." If therapists could spot kids with such processing problems early, they could provide programs better targeted to their needs. No matter how the children's disability...