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...economic uncertainty has exacerbated the effects of a searing drought in southern Africa. Without food aid, 6 million Zimbabweans will risk starvation in the coming months, according to the U.N. World Food Program. The hardest hit are poor black Zimbabweans, the very people Mugabe professes to be helping. The opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) and U.N. insiders accuse Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Z.A.N.U.-P.F.) of using food as a political weapon--giving it to card-carrying Z.A.N.U.-P.F. supporters and denying it to M.D.C. members. "If you cannot prove you are a member...
...last, perhaps hardest element of treatment is family therapy. Bipolar disorder, like schizophrenia, depression and certain anxiety conditions, is powerfully influenced by surroundings. When an identical twin suffers from bipolar, the other twin has only a 65% chance of developing it too. Conversely, adopted children with no genetic legacy for bipolar have a 2% chance of coming down with the condition if they are raised in a home with one nonbiological bipolar parent. Clearly, something is in play besides mere genes, and that something is environment. Raise a child in a steady and stable home, and you reduce the odds...
...yard signs from 1988. "I don't think the Democrats would find a better candidate," said Herb Goettsch, who came to a fund raiser in Bettendorf wearing a 14-year-old boater that Gephardt autographed the last time they met. But first, the House has to be won. The hardest-working man in politics has to take it one November at a time...
...providing much shelter. The plans, whose earnings are exempt from federal and some state tax, came into wide acceptance about three years ago, just as the market was peaking. They now have $11 billion in assets, much of it stuffed into aggressive-growth portfolios--the ones that have fallen hardest. For one Arizona Family College Savings 529 plan, nearly a quarter of the assets are in funds that have fallen 30% to 60% since its inception...
...good old days. When I was in 6th and 7th grade, people warned me that I was going through the hardest time. It was hard—we got graded for the first time, I felt excluded by cliques—but because I went to an all-girls’ school, I never experienced a classroom, cafeteria, or gym with boys...