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...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), one of four institutions administering the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), won a five-year $107 million grant in February for relief work in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania...
...course, there are numerous other factors driving the price of crude, among them supply hiccups caused by chaos in Iraq, political and economic turmoil in oil-producing nations such as Nigeria and Russia, hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and fears of terrorism. "It is neither fair nor accurate to blame China for most of the rise in oil prices," says Jeffrey Logan of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). But with oil in short supply?currently, producers are pumping just 1 million barrels more than the 81 million barrels being consumed worldwide every day?growing demand from China...
...check, governments across the world must learn to be receptive to diverse viewpoints. Alienation and suppression of contrary opinion and groups, whether ethnic, religious or sectarian, are ultimately counterproductive. We need to prevent sowing the seeds of evil that grew into the horror of Beslan. Chinedu Nwankwo Umungasi, Nigeria Time to Get Down Columnist Joe Klein's "All You Have To Do Is Believe" [Sept. 20] quoted an unnamed prominent Democrat who said of President Bush, "If we can't beat this guy, with his record ... ," and then the Democrat found himself unable to finish the sentence...
...truth, even well-intentioned Party cadres can find themselves between a rock and a hard place. For China, economic growth has become dogma. Small-town leaders are under intense pressure to deliver the visible trappings of development. But as is true from New Jersey to Nigeria, when rivers of fresh concrete flow, corruption is never far away?especially when local officials are chronically underpaid (the salary of a typical township magistrate in China is about $250 a month before bonuses and adjustments). For a local official to crack down on corruption can mean that cherished development projects get delayed. Indeed...
...only hope for peace is an international protection force. But so far, only Nigeria, Tanzania and Rwanda have offered troops, and the proposed force of 4,000 won't deter attacks unless the soldiers are equipped and paid for by the major powers, are given a mandate to protect civilians and are eventually reinforced by 10,000 additional troops from other nations. Yet amid all the talk of oil embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes, no statesman--not Powell and not Annan--has attempted to rally the money, troops and political cooperation needed for such a force...