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...Administration official said the U.S. was aware of "a general uptick in activity" in the past month among rogue groups hoping to use Arab-Israeli tensions as a justification for mischief. Yemen is a fertile staging ground for such mischief; the country is one of the world's poorest, and the government wields little control over the feuding tribes that roam through the hinterland...
...plan includes no cuts for families making over $300,000 per year, of fuzziness. In contrast, Bush's plan is strikingly unfuzzy: He believes that families earning $300,000 per year ought to receive a 9.7 percent tax cut, in spite of the widening disparity between the wealthiest and poorest Americans...
Picture a first-grade classroom. Now imagine that, each year, one first-grader is randomly killed. In many of the world's poorest countries, this is a reality--and malaria is the killer. These are places where five percent of all children die of malaria...
...project that brought some of Harvard's biggest academic superstars to one of the city's poorest neighborhoods last night had its origins in a keynote address that Gates delivered at the United Negro College Fund meeting in Minneapolis on January...
This is an institution that exists solely to promote the development of health, literacy, wealth and education in the poorest two-thirds of our world. They tackle debt-relief and malaria while the rest of us navel-gaze our way through the status quo. So in my mind it doesn't matter if Harvard academics now have an opportunity through the center to communicate their ideas to and explore new solutions with Third World leaders. It doesn't matter that hundreds of students work with, research for and attend workshops given by the center. It doesn't really matter...