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Those community initiatives have helped boost the number of U.S. nonprofits over the past decade 75%, to more than 1 million, and account for more than one-third of nonprofits worldwide. Close to half of U.S. charities have budgets under $25,000. Yet they are making a difference, and with a little more support, they could do much more...
...cases, are clinging to life. Five-month-old Sohag, who is lying on green plastic sheeting in a bed four times her size, had suffered[an error occurred while processing this directive] diarrhea for seven days before she was admitted. Her weight had dropped to 2.75 kg, just over one-third of that expected for her age, and she now seems to be little more than a distended stomach, bulging head and collection of scrawny limbs. According to the chart at the foot of her bed, she may also have pneumonia and sepsis. But at the root of her problem...
...one-third of Americans who are delusional, as your story suggested, or is it actually two-thirds? You admitted that there was "a lack of identifiable plane wreckage" at the Pentagon crash site yet asserted that "the remains of all but one [of the passengers] have been identified." Does TIME have a theory that explains why two-thirds of Americans are untroubled by such an outrageous contradiction? Paul Holme Paranaque, the Philippines...
...bring inflation down from its current 5%. That rate is the only remaining impediment to Estonia adopting the euro as its currency. None of this has deterred investors. Foreign money is pouring in and now totals more than $12 billion. Companies partly or wholly owned by foreigners account for one-third of Estonia's total economy and more than 50% of exports. About three-quarters of the funds have come from just two countries, Finland and Sweden. Can the money continue flowing? Most seem to think it can, with at least one key caveat: Estonia needs to resolve its shortage...
However, the study also determined that only one-third of tenure-track faculty members responded positively to clarity of tenure standards, assistance in obtaining external grants, and quality and availability of certain benefits—such as spousal hiring assistance, personal leave time, and child care...