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...Booming prices for oil, copper, gold and other commodities over the past decade have produced annual GDP growth rates as high as 6% in some African countries. But the International Monetary Fund predicts continent-wide economic growth of only about 1.7% this year - compared with last year's growth estimate of about 5.5%. (See pictures of scared traders...
...with Gaza are envisaged as the basis of a Palestinian state. Netanyahu's government has thus far refrained from embracing the two-state formula, and is committed to expanding the existing settlements. It claims a right to continue building inside the boundaries of the settlements to accommodate their "natural growth," an argument flatly rejected by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," Obama said in his Cairo speech. "This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop...
...people. Tseng, the CEO, was unavailable, but Schleier-Smith, the chief technology officer, agreed to talk, but only over e-mail. "We did not intend to cause people to invite contacts by accident," Schleier-Smith wrote. "The recent backlash hurts, and we want to ensure our continued growth helps people rather than creating problems for them...
...Minow inherits a different set of circumstances, however, than Kagan, who led the school during a time of soaring endowment growth that allowed her to focus on the issues that have won her wide acclaim—bridging divides among a polarized faculty, reinvigorating student life, and poaching big-name academics for the school’s faculty...
Residents of McLean, Va., and other single-family enclaves near Tysons are more risk-averse. Members of the 95-year-old McLean Citizens Association (MCA) say they genuinely support Tysons' growth and realize its inevitability - but where, they ask, will the proposed 85,000 new residents play soccer, go to school or seek police protection? "We don't want to see it grow faster than the infrastructure to take care of it," says MCA president Rob Jackson. The task force agrees and wants the county to build a tit-for-tat system into the redevelopment plan to ensure that private...