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...almost nonexistent. "It's as if we are still two countries," says Dr. Pascal Ngoy, a health coordinator for the IRC. That division is felt most keenly in the provinces and is made worse by the long-standing perception that the capital doesn't care about the country's farthest reaches. The local administration in Bunia, for instance, says it sent about $1 million in taxes to Kinshasa in the first half of 2005. It got back just...
Even Prime Minister Paul Martin descended into the muck last week, all but branding his opponent an alien from outer space, or at least Texas. "The farthest of the U.S. far right--that's what [he] means when he says it's time for a change in Canada," Martin told supporters in Toronto. "Well, let me tell you something ... That's not the kind of change that Canadians want. America is our neighbor. It is not our nation...
This represents a complete failure, an outright mockery, of the IOP’s mission: Often the students who care most about politics on this campus are staying farthest away from the Institute of Politics. And the IOP is not just another student organization; we have a full-time staff, a former Governor as our Director, a nearly $100 million endowment, Ted Kennedy on our Board, and the prestige to get keynote speakers with five-figure appearance fees begging for the chance to speak for free...
...successes behind them--don't always make headlines. The world has long had a weak spot for spaceships that carry astronauts, often overlooking the robot craft that fly out on their own. And yet in the long history of space travel, it's the robots that have gone the farthest and done the most. And it's J.P.L. that has sent the majority of them on their...
...local license has been a godsend to retired farmer Clair Leo Maguire, 74, of Danbury, Iowa, a town of 450. He loves driving to the restaurant, the newsstand and the post office, and he never goes outside his limits. "It's a pleasure to drive," he says, "but the farthest I go is five blocks to town--all paved streets...