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...bloke's backyard, also airs as an American version with a team of gardeners digging up backyards in places like New Orleans, Miami and Bordentown, N.J. It's one of the channel's biggest hits, with a prime-time audience of about 350,000 viewers, says Paul Lee, CEO of BBCA. That may seem tiny, but it's substantial, considering that BBCA is available in about one-third of American households and resides in the hinterlands on many cable systems' lineups...
...Clinton Foundation has so far signed up four generic-drug companies and helped them cut production costs, reducing by one-third the price of AIDS -fighting drugs. The firms - three in India and one in South Africa - will still profit because of the high volume guaranteed by the Foundation, which is working with Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania (which account for one-third of the world's AIDS cases), and more than a dozen countries in the Caribbean region. Clinton spoke with TIME Europe editor ERIC POOLEY...
...recognize that they are little more than an occupying, rather than a liberating, army. Half of troops responding in a recent survey by the Pentagon-funded newspaper Stars & Stripes said that morale was either low or very low in their units and that they did not plan to reenlist. One-third said they would characterize the war in Iraq as having little or no value. On Wednesday, Reuters reported the Army’s disclosure that at least 13 soldiers have committed suicide in Iraq. Despite these conditions—Bush, who himself avoided serving in Vietnam?...
...Davis, a former abortion provider in Alabama, said of her experience, “A very short time after working there, I realized one thing: we were not there to help women. We were a business—a money-making organization.” Carol Everett, who worked at abortion clinics in Texas, described the situation in the early 1980s: “I was compensated at the rate of $25 per case plus one-third of the clinics, so you can imagine what my motivation was. I sold abortions...
That 1996 NBA Draft class stands out as arguably the most talented group to emerge over the past twenty years. An incredible one-third of the first round draftees went on to become full-fledged All-Stars; several rose to be the best at their individual positions...