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...that mainly come from rich-world governments - should cover operations for 2008. By late March, rising food prices meant those same operations were going to cost an extra $500 million; by the end of April, the estimated shortfall was $755 million. Donations have trickled in and, to fill the gap, Saudi Arabia pitched in a windfall $500 million in late May. But if prices stay high - and agriculture experts believe they will - WFP will need to raise those extra hundreds of millions, year after year, just to maintain services at their 2007 level. Yet the organization faces new demands from...
...foot crack opened in the river's embankment near Changzhou, Xinhua said. Nearly 120,000 people fled to high ground in the town of Longhua when river water began to pour through the gap, it said...
...According to the poll, Hispanic voters are backing Obama by a margin of 62 to 28 percent. This is not an unprecedented gap for a generic Democrat, but much had been written during the spring about whether Hispanics would vote for an African-American. Perhaps those analysts believed primary exit polls were a reliable prologue for the fall: Hillary Clinton had run ahead of Obama by a two-to-one margin among Hispanics in the states where exit polls were taken. Note the spread: Clinton usually won between 60 and 65 percent of Hispanics in those contests; Obama captured between...
...this great country--before it's not great anymore. The one point that really blows my mind is that the U.S. in 2006 spent $3.2 billion on energy research--nuclear, wind, coal, solar and biofuels--while the Pentagon spends that much in about 40 hours. Howard Sandt, BIG STONE GAP...
...Benasich then plays one-syllable word bits to them--da and ta sounds, for example--and watches as their brains process the difference. At first, the sounds are separated by 300 milliseconds, very fast but well within the brain's ability. She then speeds things up so that the gap shrinks to 200 milliseconds, then 100, then 35--the point at which the length of the space is less than the length of the syllable itself. Even then the babies keep pace, getting all the way down to 10 milliseconds before the sounds run together...