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What this means While the downward trend is good news, cancer remains a formidable killer. The half a million saved since 1990 are matched by the half a million who die every year from the disease. What's more, while the death rate fell 2% from 2003 to 2004, the next year there was only a 1% improvement...
...shortly after the disputed December 27 vote. "We all have multiple identities but I hope you see yourselves as Kenyans first," Annan said. "To the leaders gathered here today, I say that the people want you to take charge of the situation and do whatever possible to halt the downward spiral that is threatening this beautiful and prosperous country...
...spite of all of Suharto's soldiers and all of his money, Indonesia was inundated by the Asian financial crisis. Currency speculation had led to the collapse of Thailand's currency, which started a chain of events that swamped Indonesia's rupiah. The devaluation sent company profits dramatically downward; Jakarta's stock market crashed. Food prices spiked upwards, leading to rioting in the streets and the death of perhaps hundreds of people clamoring for food in the capital. The country's divisions re-emerged: Muslims vs. non-Muslims; Malay-Indonesians vs. Chinese-Indonesians; secular Muslims vs. orthodox Muslims. The ghosts...
...enjoying increasing success in Iraq, the war itself seems to be driving down the quality of the fresh recruits the U.S. military needs to continue the campaign. A new analysis of Pentagon data shows that only 71% of Army recruits in 2007 earned high-school diplomas, extending a downward trend that began in 2004, the first full year of the Iraq war, and well below the Army's goal...
Accompanied by men more than twice his age, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sat through his introduction with the downward gaze of a sullen teenager. But when it came time to speak, he looked up with the same large brown eyes that from underneath her headscarf helped make his mother famous, and which now seem to reflect the gaze of the world...