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...reopening of Gaza's border crossings and the return of Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit. Officials are optimistic, but amid memories of the failed 2006 cease-fire and last-minute attacks from both sides, including an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, above, extensive efforts will be required to maintain the peace...
...million. Donations have trickled in and, to fill the gap, Saudi Arabia pitched in a windfall $500 million in late May. But if prices stay high - and agriculture experts believe they will - WFP will need to raise those extra hundreds of millions, year after year, just to maintain services at their 2007 level. Yet the organization faces new demands from people whom, a year ago, it did not expect to have to help...
...planned an end to school feeding for 500,000 kids in Uganda's camps. The picture is the same across the world. School feeding was canceled in Cambodia for a month this spring because of a shortage of funds. In Sri Lanka, a food-for-work scheme to maintain irrigation systems was axed for the same reason. "In a sense we're mortgaging the long term to pay for the short term," says John Aylieff, WFP's global head of programs in Rome...
...want to reiterate that if in fact there has been a violation of NIH policy, if in fact research integrity has been compromised, we will take whatever appropriate actions within our power to hold whoever is responsible accountable," Ruiz Bravo said. "We cannot compromise research integrity and we must maintain public trust...
...study found last year. And Obama will have one enormous advantage in wooing Hispanics that McCain lacks - money. It was reported this week that Obama may come close to raising close to $100 million in June, a political fund-raising threshold virtually without precedent. If Obama's donors can maintain that pace, they may be able to raise as much as $300 million for the fall campaign, a tally that would swamp McCain's more limited campaign treasury of $75 million. In past elections, Hispanics have not voted in numbers equal to their proportion of the population. But in places...