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...ground. No deal, however substantial, could reasonably have been expected to solve the problems of Africa in a year or even a decade. And change is happening. Countries such as Mozambique and Zambia have channeled the money they once spent on debt payments into their health and education systems. Rich countries spent more than $100 billion on aid last year, up from $80 billion in 2004 - though more than 80% of that increase was poured into reconstruction efforts and debt relief in Iraq. There is also change in the way aid is being financed and delivered, not just because...
...young Theodore Roosevelt did not strike most people as promising enough to become one of the nation's greatest Presidents. His august Knickerbocker family had grown rich from generations of shrewd investments in real estate, banking, glass importing and even hardware. But in his youth--and for that matter in his adulthood--T.R. showed very little interest in adding to the family fortune. When Roosevelt was a toddler, his asthma began to overshadow everything he did. As he grew, Theodore was too "delicate" for school--until Harvard he was educated at home--and too weak to stand up to other...
Australia and New Zealand are drifting apart. The larger nation is buoyant and rich, while the smaller one is in a funk. The gap in average incomes between the countries has widened significantly in recent years to approximately 30%, drawing Kiwis across the Tasman in large numbers. Hanging over several of New Zealand's key industries (think banking), there's a branch-office stigma. Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello is chopping at tax rates with the glee of a burly bloke in a blue singlet. Kiwi workers complain that Costello's counterpart Michael Cullen is being a scrooge on fiscal...
...VoiceMode's current discrete dictation means that users must pause between words, but CEO Rich Geruson says, "The next step is to speak naturally and continuously in full sentences. This summer Europe will be the first region to get the world's first continuous dictation product - VoiceMode 2.0." Luddites, multitaskers and the physically challenged will rejoice. voicesignal.com
...always buy a larger one), then stick the card into the Sidekick and in an instant they're all displayed, categorized by artist, album or song title. It plays MP3s, but nothing you bought on iTunes or a Windows-powered music service. Still, I was startled by the rich sound of its single buried speaker when I tried out the Rolling Stones' dynamic "Moonlight Mile." I let the song play and jumped back to check my e-mail, and at that moment as I stared at all my points of contact, with my tunes acting as a soundtrack, the Sidekick...