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...disease - HIV, hepatitis or cancer will disqualify you - and, of course, you need to have the same blood type as the recipient. It takes an average of three months for hospitals to assess and approve a transplant. Kidney donation is a major commitment - you can't drive or lift anything for six weeks, and it can be over a month before you're ready to return to work. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
Tsvangirai, now the country's Prime Minister, went on a three-week tour to the U.S. and Europe last month, making every effort to push the idea that there is unity of purpose within the government, and asking the West to lift targeted sanctions on Mugabe and his cronies, as well as to provide...
Under these circumstances it would be very unwise for the donor countries to lift their targeted sanctions against Mugabe and his lieutenants. The democratic world must compel Mugabe to honor his agreements with the opposition. The West must also use its aid as leverage to ensure that the government opens up democratic space for Zimbabweans. A specific roadmap must be developed demanding that the government deliver rule of law, freedom of the media and a new people-driven constitution with an enforceable bill of rights. Mugabe's militia units must be dismantled, and a new independent electoral commission...
...said in your story, Pyongyang's only consistency has been its unpredictability. So America should attack it with a larger level of unpredictability. Lift all sanctions. Let the giant corporate world in. The only life that the larger population of North Korea knows is the life of not having much. Give them a life of choices - export the good life into North Korea. Show them what life could be like with someone else in the capital. Do this for a year or so, then push your agendas. And if Pyongyang again starts to drag its feet, take it all away...
...tons of CO2, which 1.13 billion people - less than 15% of the global population in 2030 - would exceed. Emissions-reduction efforts would focus on the well-off people above the cap, whatever country they live in. That lets the global poor continue to use cheap fossil fuels to help lift themselves out of poverty - countering the argument that cutting carbon emissions will disproportionately hurt the poor. "The result is you decouple poverty reduction from averting global climate change," says Chakravarty...