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...immediate risk is that China could still be awash in antiforeigner sentiment in August, when Beijing will welcome the world for the Olympic Games. It would take only a couple of instances of violence against foreigners to undo years of official campaigns to make the capital extra-hospitable--coaxing Beijingers to learn English and stop spitting in the streets, for example...
...every school is different. Independent college counselor Jeannie Borin, founder of Los Angeles--based College Connections, tells waitlisted student-clients never to send anything extra to admissions offices without asking permission. Generally, colleges welcome updates on grades and achievements, which is what Sarah Brown-Campello, captain of the soccer and lacrosse teams at Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., is sending to her top choice, Dickinson College (she wants small classes and a chance to take Portuguese), along with a new teacher recommendation. Davison's classmate Jordan Vincent, whose heart is set on University of Virginia, has written a new essay...
...Vampire Slayer became a cult fave Stephenie Meyer's Her three Twilight novels are hits; the first will soon be a movie POWERS Mysterious. They include strength, form-changing and mist-summoning They're strong and fast; some have gifts like flying and mind-reading Buffy's vampires are extra-strong, extra-tough and extra-surly Many: the usual strength and speed, plus acute hearing, no need for sleep WEAKNESSES An aversion to stakes, crosses, garlic, holy water and beheading Immune to garlic and stakes. But they do burn in sunlight They turn to dust when staked in the heart...
...food-aid agency, headquartered in Rome, had budgeted $2.9 billion this year to buy food and distribute it to more than 70 million people worldwide. By late March, however, high food and fuel prices meant that those same planned operations were expected to cost an extra $500 million. Just one month later, says WFP executive director Josette Sheeran, the funding gap has now widened to $755 million. And that's before factoring in new programs that the WFP would like to launch, boosting aid in new places where food shortages suddenly loom. "I think that with what we're facing...
...short term, the WFP has issued an emergency appeal to the world's governments, urging them to cover its substantial budget shortfall. Britain, Germany and Spain have already pledged extra funds, and Sheeran says she is hopeful Japan, Canada and the U.S. will approve new donations as well. What's more, Sheeran says, "I would say over the medium to long term I am an optimist because the world knows how to grow enough food." The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that cereal production will once again increase in 2008, and bring at least a modest reduction in food...