Word: portion
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...speak first and foremost as educators," a portion of the statement reads. "We believe that our students benefit significantly from education that takes place within a diverse setting...
...dues is actually costing the U.S. more money in the long run by jeopardizing efforts to reduce the U.S. share of the U.N. peacekeeping tab from 30% to 25%. (The U.S. expects a $320 million bill this year.) "Countries would have been willing to lower the U.S. portion," says U.N. information officer Jessica Jiji, "if they had paid their dues." And if the U.S. loses its General Assembly vote, it may also forfeit its moral strength in the battle to restrain the growth of the U.N. budget. Says U.N. Under-Secretary-General Joseph Connor: "Somebody sitting on the bench...
...hungersite.org makes free-food donations to the U.N. World Food Project every time it receives a hit. All you have to do is look at the ads. SECONDHARVEST.ORG distributes food to the needy in over 100 U.S. cities. And e-shopping sites like IGIVE.com allow shoppers to designate a portion of the purchase price to the nonprofit of their choice...
...tabloids as rivals, for both readers and advertisers, of mainstream publications like People (which, like Time, is published by Time Inc.). Casual headline scanners in grocery check-out lines may not have noticed the difference yet, but Pecker claims it exists. "If there's a Hollywood scandal, the investigative portion will be done by the National Enquirer. The impact on celebrities, on their careers, that will be done by the Star...
...rhesus monkeys, all of which are closer to us on the evolutionary scale than are mice (except in Kansas). The real payoff came late last year, when Fred Gage at the Salk Institute and his colleagues in Sweden reported that nerve cells are regenerated in the human hippocampus (a portion of the brain related to memory and learning...