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...achieving proper levels of sustenance worldwide to the half-filled Science Center auditorium. Citing age distribution projections, McGahan said that the global hunger situation would likely be exacerbated in the future as resources are diverted towards growing masses of wealthy elderly and away from impoverished regions elsewhere. Richard Leach, senior advisor for public policy at the Friends of the World Food Program, a United Nations humanitarian organization that combats hunger, praised the students in the audience for demonstrating their interest in global health. Leach commended the strides the United States has made in assisting impoverished nations, but warned that...
...it’s also true that my former congressman, Jim Leach, was one of only six Republicans in the House to vote against authorizing the war in Iraq and the only one to vote against Bush’s 2003 tax cut; despite these moderate views, he lost my district to a Democrat in 2006. That Democrat, Dave Loebsack, now sits in the Congressional Progressive Caucus alongside Barney Frank ’ 62 and Bernie Sanders. Iowa also gave Barack Obama his first victory of the primary cycle, silencing those who insisted that an African-American candidate couldn?...
...Stick with the Program Early action, however, is just the beginning. Japanese policymakers have learned the hard way that it takes years to leach toxic assets out of a financial system and restore confidence so that consumers shop rather than stash their money in safe-deposit boxes. While domestic demand remains sluggish, government spending has to take up the slack and keep at it. In Japan, a recovery was aborted in the late 1990s when, at the first sight of green shoots, the government raised taxes. President Barack Obama is committed to reducing this year's federal budget deficit...
...that almost all uranium mining in the United States occurs in arid, sparsely populated places out west that are geologically unlike anything in Virginia. In the water-rich Old Dominion, they argue, radioactive materials from uranium such as thorium-230, radium-226 and radon-222 could shake loose and leach into the groundwater. Meanwhile, the large piles of mining debris known as "tailings" could blow in the wind and contaminate the air. "It's going to rain down dust like lint," predicts 57-year-old cattle farmer and mine opponent Phillip Lovelace of Pittsylvania...
...exacerbated by the fact no part of the stimulus package will put a penny into the market before mid-year. The legislation for putting $800 billion or so into the economy may not be signed into law until the end of this month. Most of that money will leach into the soil of the American enterprise system slowly. Almost no one is looking for a turn in GDP before early...