Word: ethiopia
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...official. The world's hottest human is in utero. ?Yes, I'm pregnant,? Angelina Jolie told a charity aid worker in the Dominican Republic, according to People magazine. After months of cozily co-parenting two international adoptees, Cambodia-born Maddox, 4, and Ethiopia-born Zahara Marley, 1, Hollywood's improbably gorgeous globe-trotting couple Jolie, 30, and her Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Brad Pitt, 42, have decided to procure a new baby the old-fashioned way. The very public but oft-denied romance began amid rumors that Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston separated because he wanted...
...massive success, and in the sense that it got people to briefly engage with another part of the world while watching Tina Turner dance with Mick Jagger, it was. After the concert, Bono and his wife Ali Hewson spent six weeks working at an orphanage in Wello, Ethiopia. The weight of famine, war and corruption--as well as the resentment many capable Africans feel toward uninformed foreigners with messiah complexes--overwhelmed him. As did the foolishness of thinking a day of singing was enough. But U2 was on its way to becoming the biggest band in the world, and Bono...
Then in 1997 he received a brief from a development advocate, Jamie Drummond, that pointed out that although Live Aid raised $200 million, Ethiopia alone paid $500 million in annual debt service to the world's lending institutions. After contacting Drummond, Bono signed on as a spokesman for Jubilee 2000, a church-based campaign born in England that asked governments to use the millennium as an occasion to cancel Third World debt. Bono, who spends most of his nontouring time in Dublin with Hewson and their four children, started flying to Washington for weekends at the World Bank with...
...governments and international organizations have struggled for years to get ahead of the problem but often fell behind. The task was too big, too complicated. There was no one in charge, no consensus about what to do first and never enough money to do it. In Muslim parts of Ethiopia, aid workers can't talk to teenage girls about condoms to prevent AIDS; but in Tanzania they're encouraged to. How you cut an umbilical cord can determine whether a baby risks a fatal infection, but every culture has its own traditions. They cut with a coin for luck...
...from the CEO--to rebuild Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast schools underscored the company's commitment to educational reform. That followed on the heels of a 2003 Jordan Education Initiative, spearheaded and partially funded by Cisco, to offer Internet-enabled learning to the developing world. Volunteers were also sent to Ethiopia to teach computer and Internet skills...