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...children than either malaria or AIDS, stunts growth, and forces millions - adults and children alike - to spend weeks at a time off work or school, which hits both a country's economy and its citizens' chances of a better future. In countless villages like Sogola, where people have long drawn water from unreliable wells, diarrhea kills so many that there is a general sense of resignation, as if watching children die is simply one of life's inevitable tragedies. One morning I ask Djene-Sira Diakité how many children she has. "God gave me 10 children, and took five...
Harvard has approved a new line of expensive prep clothing, called "Harvard Yard," to generate money for Harvard's undergraduate financial aid program, a deal that has drawn mixed reactions from students and intense media coverage in late-night television, celebrity gossip blogs, and major newspapers...
...will be in Afghanistan long after Western armies leave. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in a speech to NATO July 27, called on the Afghan government "to separate hard-line ideologues, who are essentially irreconcilable and violent and who must be pursued relentlessly, from those who can be drawn into domestic political processes." He was quickly followed by U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke, who told a BBC interviewer that "there is room in Afghan society for all those fighting with the Taliban who renounce al-Qaeda and its extremist allies, who lay down their arms...
...diplomatic solution to the conflict. At a speech at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 27, Foreign Secretary David Milliband urged military commanders to open negotiations with midlevel Taliban leaders in order "to separate hard-line ideologues who are essentially irreconcilable and violent from those who can be drawn into a domestic political process." (Watch a TIME video with Gordon Brown...
...late by his opposition to the stimulus package, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and, especially, the Wall Street bailout - would have stood him in good stead in a primary, but observers on all sides of the fence predicted he would have struggled in the general election, which has already drawn two strong likely Democratic contenders, Mongiardo and attorney general Jack Conway...