Word: malawi
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...convinced that sweets and snacks always taste better when you're on a diet, you may be right. Scientists at the University of Malawi found that when you're hungry, your ability to taste changes, either because the taste buds on your tongue become more sensitive to sweets and salt or because your brain perceives the same tastes more intensely. The researchers gave a group of college men different concentrations of sugar or salt solutions to drink before and after lunch; the students were more aware of the sweet and salty tastes before lunch...
Entitled, “Don’t Turn Away: Life in Countries Affected by AIDS,” the exhibit shows life for AIDS victims in South Africa, Haiti, Botswana, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana...
...however, good governance may fall down the priority list. Good governance requires transparency, accountability, the rule of law and democracy. But the war on terrorism has reinforced a tendency to reward high-handed authoritarianism when its perpetrators are targeting U.S. enemies. There'll be no complaints, for example, about Malawi's decision last week to ignore its own courts in order to expedite the extradition of five al-Qaeda suspects to the U.S. And good governance has been an exceedingly rare phenomenon in nations that subsist primarily on exporting...
...Consider Africa through the eyes of an al-Qaeda planner: The movement long ago made excellent use of failed states such as Sudan and Somalia as safe havens to nurture a network of operatives that eventually stretched as far down East Africa as Malawi, and which has struck more than once with devastating effect. But the U.S. has sharply stepped up its intelligence operations in East Africa and has stationed 1,500 Marines in Djibouti as a rapid-reaction force. While East Africa is now a known theater of operations, West Africa offers a broad new range of opportunities...
...contestant; the majority of viewers in each country is taken as the vote for that country. Viewers in countries without a contestant combine to become a 13th vote. The multinational approach has created headaches for the show's producers. Last week viewers in more conservative countries such as Malawi complained about a shot of contestants' bare bottoms. At the same time, says Marie Rosholt, the program's executive producer in South Africa, "it's serving to break down misconceptions. There's a perception in the rest of Africa that Nigerians are less than honest, that South Africans are arrogant...