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...United Nations World Food Program (wfp). Badly malnourished children are dying and thousands more are at risk. How can this be happening again? The depressing answer: all too easily. The G-8 pledges of debt relief and a doubling of aid were never going to change the continent overnight. For one thing, many of the details of how those promises will be implemented still have to be worked out. That's if they are implemented at all - Canada, Germany and Italy are already backpedaling on their commitments and the World Bank is muttering that forgiving poor countries' debt will hurt...
Conrad K. Harper had an urgent letter to deliver last month, so naturally, he turned to FedEx. “Priority Overnight,” he recalls. “Gets it there on time...
...black or blue!" Monica is dismissive, laughing about fastidious friends who spend 20 minutes doing their hair, 30 minutes on makeup. Kelsie, however, says she watches not only her hair and makeup but also her junk-food intake. Sponsors say that gaining weight, especially during pizza pig-outs at overnight competitions, is a more common problem for 13-year-olds than eating disorders like bulimia, which can become a serious issue for cheerleaders in high school...
...think, for the moment, that U.S. universities are so preeminent...that that’s not about to change overnight,” he said—even in spite of China’s attempts to build a series of elite technical institutes...
...shot back. "The American is our guest, and we won't give him up as long as there's a man or a woman left alive in our village." As a precaution, the villagers moved the injured commando out of Gulab's house and hid him in a stable overnight, until it was safe for Gulab to make the six-hour trek down to the U.S. base at Asadabad and report that the SEAL--by then the subject of an intense search--was alive. Sometime later, Gulab went back to his village and then returned to Asadabad with the commando...