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...past eight years, he and his friends have traversed the globe in search of the green flash, an atmospheric phenomenon that appears for a fraction of a second. He can count on his hands the number of glimpses he?...
...million inhabitants have just one-fifth the wealth of Poland's 38 million. And because Ukraine was late in starting a large-scale privatization program, and is nowhere near completing it, the amount of foreign direct investment into the country - about $1.4 billion last year - is just a fraction of the amount that has flowed into Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic since the early 1990s. Thus, how Yushchenko's government handles firms such as Kryvorizhstal is a "critical issue," says Julian Exeter, a senior economist and Ukraine specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ebrd) in London...
...address the plight of the poorest of the poor, whose societies are destabilized by extreme poverty. The $16 billion represents 0.15% of U.S. income, just 15¢ on every $100 of our national income. The share devoted to helping the poor has declined for decades and is a tiny fraction of what the U.S. has repeatedly promised, and failed, to give...
...costs of action are a tiny fraction of the costs of inaction. And yet we must carry out these tasks in a context of global inertia, proclivities to war and prejudice, and understandable skepticism around the world that this time can be different from the past. Here are nine steps to the goal...
...business of dividing up time with one's kids. In both Australia and New Zealand, one child in four lives apart from one of his natural parents. What troubles many is that the parent on the outer is usually the dad. Mothers gain residential custody in a fraction less than 70% of cases that are tried, according to figures provided by the Family Court of Australia to a 2003 parliamentary inquiry into custodial arrangements after separation. That mightn't sound like an outrageous imbalance, but it's important to note that only about 6% of cases make it that...