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...counter this perceived threat, in 2002 the U.S. opened a military base in Djibouti--the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa--and a Pentagon source says other moves are under discussion to enhance the U.S. support role across the continent. In 2003, Washington allocated $100 million to the East Africa Counter-Terrorism Initiative, an interagency task force focused on the continent. The U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet, based in Gaeta, Italy, now spends much of its time patrolling the coasts of Africa. This year, using another $100 million allocated to Africa under the Global Peace Operations Initiative, U.S. soldiers...
...Orinoco Belt, which, if true, is nearly 10 times as many proven reserves as the U.S. has. But most of the stuff is extra-heavy crude. Tapping and processing that tarlike oil require billions in investment. Analysts say PDVSA has been slow to start those projects, including joint stakes with China's CNPC, Brazil's Petrobras and Iran's Petropars in southeastern Venezuela...
...Joint United Nations Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) acknowledged last week that it had overestimated the prevalence of the global HIV epidemic, confirming a Harvard School of Public Health professor’s three-year-old claim that the UNAIDS figures were too large...
...wish that from the beginning it had been a joint process,” Sundquist said. “I think it might be more fruitful for everyone involved if the process were slightly more inclusive...
...number of students attending Harvard’s spring and early fall the joint-travel trip with Georgetown, Duke, University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford has also been on the rise, Fitzsimmons said...