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...Craigslist, in which the companies are suing each other for unfairly undermining their business. A quick glance at the global online listings market reveals why classifieds-king Craigslist is worried. While Kijiji is just a speck in Craigslist's eye in the U.S., worldwide it gets just 26% fewer visitors, according to comScore. In the U.S., Kijiji has become the second most trafficked, general-purpose classified site just one year since it launched...
...planning - all luxuries now. And yet as the sun beats down on the squabbling crowds, no one here claims that WFP's efforts have been wasted. "We're happy!" one woman says, and she whoops with joy as she gets set to pick up her rations. Today, at least, fewer are going hungry. But tomorrow, others will be standing in the hot sun, waiting for food...
...might have heard, gas prices are at an all-time high, recently breaking the $4-a-gallon barrier. Here in New York City, where I live, a gallon of regular will set you back $4.31. Though high gas prices have caused Americans to drive less - 11 billion fewer miles this March compared to a year earlier - and have boosted sales of fuel-efficient cars, there's not a whole lot that most of us can do about the problem except complain. A lot. Very loudly...
...seems that what goes on students' trays has become everyone's business. And while efforts are being made by governments to ensure that cafeterias offer healthier meals, many schools are still failing to make the grade. According to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture last year, fewer than one-third of public schools meet the recommended standard for either total or saturated fat in their meals. Here's what kids used to eat, what they still do eat and, most important, what they could...
...there is one point that everyone agrees on: exercise definitely improves a child's overall sense of well-being. Cooper, who invented aerobics a generation ago, has been testing the physical fitness of schoolchildren over the past decade and has consistently found that active kids do better academically, have fewer disciplinary issues and maintain better medical histories. "A child doesn't need to be a star athlete or a long-distance runner," Cooper says. "Even taking the stairs instead of an elevator has positive effects...