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...report describes ways to use science and technology to achieve goals set at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in September 2000. The summit aimed to improve living standards of developing countries by eliminating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy and discrimination...
...overall aim of the project is to dramatically reduce the poverty that affects over two billion people worldwide,” said Erin Trowbridge, communications manger of the UN Millennium Project, noting that over 1.3 billion or one-sixth of the world population live in extreme poverty...
Critics say the city is suffering from mismanagement and from the cost of Mayor Richard Daley's pet projects, among them the recently completed $475 million Millennium Park. "We don't want to cut services or raise property taxes. That's political suicide," says city alderman Ricardo Muoz. "So the tighter the budget gets, the more creative we get." The latest budget draft hikes the sales tax from 8.75% to 9%, the highest among big U.S. cities. And Daley has backed an idea to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana instead of arresting them--proof once again...
...evolution of democracy has been a long and, at times, painful process. In the last millennium governments of the people have managed to eliminate unjust voting restrictions based on race, property and gender. Now, we stand on the brink of true equality among the citizenry with only one obstacle still blocking the way: age restriction. According to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, only American citizens who have reached the age of 18 years possess the inalienable right of suffrage. By disenfranchising the seventy million citizens under that age, we as a nation relinquish our claim to be a democracy or even...
...chill through her very marrow. Rushing downstairs to investigate, she realized it was merely the initiation rituals of the Sabliere society, an all-female social group started by several Crimson editors, among others, during the great “female social club” wave of the early millennium. Unfortunately, said society must bear the albatross of the greatest social deadweight this side of feminism: association with The Harvard Crimson. History is truly oppressive...