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There are two ways of explaining this phenomenon, said Carolyn Buck Luce, one of the authors of “The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women’s Careers...
...that modest amount, almost $5 was actually for consultants from the donor countries, more than $3 was for emergency aid, about $4 went for servicing Africa's debts and $5 was for debt-relief operations. The rest, about $12, went to Africa. Since the "money down the drain" argument is heard most frequently in the U.S., it's worth looking at the same calculations for U.S. aid alone. In 2002, the U.S. gave $3 per sub-Saharan African. Taking out the parts for U.S. consultants and technical cooperation, food and other emergency aid, administrative costs and debt relief...
...PREZ Man, President Summers could really use some Tommy’s right about now. Seriously—just one slice of that greasy, delicious pizza. Damn. All his troubles would drain away like our motivation to come up with a fresh joke on this subject...
Love makes the world go round, but it can also send drama spiraling right down the drain. The recollection of someone loved too well and too uncritically can bury a filmed memoir in Hallmark emotion. Writer-actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson courts this danger in the autobiographical Lackawanna Blues (HBO, Feb. 12, 8 p.m. E.T.) and escapes--barely...
...finder's fee of about 60?. She leads her customers to a back alley where a woman in a baseball cap opens several plastic bags, revealing four live chickens. For $2.50, the woman?who refuses to give her name?grabs a bird and slits its throat, letting the blood drain onto a tray. "It's only sick chickens that are dangerous," she says. "This one is alive, so it's O.K." (Not true: infected birds can sometimes spread the disease before showing symptoms...