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...hospitals have reopened. Tax receipts are up. Bureaucracy is down. U.N. sanctions on diamond and timber exports have been lifted. Liberia is attracting foreign investment in iron ore, timber, palm oil and construction. Though steel giant Arcelor Mittal recently mothballed a $1.5 billion project to reopen an iron-ore mine and rebuild a railway in the eastern interior, Liberia has signed a deal with Sime Darby of Malaysia for an $800 million, 20-year concession to a 494,000-acre (200,000 hectare) combined palm-oil and rubber plantation. Earlier this year, the IMF and World Bank canceled Liberia...
...What is your priority now? Over 300,000 people are in the IDP [internally-displaced persons] camps. The whole area is mined. We must de-mine the whole area, give basic facilities, water, electricity, roads, resettle them. (Read "The Tigers' Last Days...
...last time I came to Sri Lanka was in January for the funeral of assassinated journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge. The posthumous editorial that his newspaper published was a very emotional piece. It addressed you. He was a good friend of mine. He had informed somebody to inform me [that he was in danger]. But unfortunately, I didn't get that message. I would have told him to go to the nearest police station. No one knows what happened. (Read "Dying for Journalism: Lasantha Wickrematunge of Sri Lanka...
...study may not be familiar to most people outside of élite neurology circles, but to dementia researchers, it's a gold mine. The long-term data on more than 600 nuns from Minnesota has revealed a great many insights about the effects of aging and the development of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. And yet it was not in the Nun study's core data that its director, Dr. David Snowdon, first discovered a fascinating correlation between the sisters' language skills, based on essays they had written in their 20s when they first entered the convent (Snowdon discovered...
...considered myself old enough to choose to do things. I saw that it was my decision, and mine only,” she said, when I asked her whether or not she retrospectively resented the fact that she was able to easily enter the sex trade as a minor...