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Harvard will also match donations up to $100 made by students, staff, and faculty to specific charitable relief organizations...
Thousands stayed behind in the city or relied on strained rescue and relief efforts, many of them condemned by their poverty to ride out the storm and its aftermath or simply wary of a lifetime of boy-who-cried-wolf predictions. New Orleans' poverty and crime levels dwarf those of the rest of the nation, with a staggering percentage of black males seeing the inside of prisons during their lifetimes...
...felt relief and a sense of justice when Atkins Nutritionals, which makes more than 50 low-carb products and 100 nutritional supplements and no grammatical sense, announced that it is $300 million in debt and has filed for bankruptcy. Over the past year, the company has fallen apart as the country went from having 9% of its citizens on a low-carb diet to having 2%. I knew the Atkins plan was doomed when a diet designed to let you indulge in Lardcicles was losing its willpower and selling people low-carb versions of the rolls and bagels...
...Niger some 2.5 million people face starvation, according to aid agencies and the 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...
...Useless Music? Are we so naive as to believe that the Live 8 concerts [July 11] will provide relief for poverty-stricken Africans? How pathetic we are to think we can help the continent of Africa with some concerts in the park. I have never witnessed a more pretentious and self-absorbed gathering of aging rockers and one-hit wonders. The first and foremost thing on the minds of the audience was hope for an encore, not hope for Africa. The plight of Africa is not some startling revelation. No one has an excuse for being unaware of the devastation...