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...generate enough power to kick-start the region's economy. The NBI's Kahangire, the World Bank's Grey and other backers of a grand Nile project say that desperately poor countries like Uganda and Ethiopia need the chance to build dams and develop just as the rich world did a century ago. Rapid population growth in such countries - according to the United Nations, Ethiopia's population of 77 million people is expected to more than double to 170 million by 2050, while Uganda's 29 million people will grow to 127 million in the same period - are adding...
...Workers like Nhan, who is going to work in the new Canon factory, are vowing to do their bit. "People in the north are just as hard-working as [those in] the south," she insists. "Now that foreign investors have come, maybe soon the north will be just as rich." If Nhan's wish comes true, the future will be brighter for the whole country...
...will substitute its required year-long tutorial with a mandatory spring tutorial and a group of strongly recommended fall semester seminars, according to Steven Biel, the department’s director of studies.“These seminars will introduce students to interdisciplinary methods by focusing on a single rich text or event—and exploring a variety of contexts, questions, interpretations, and resonances,” he wrote in an e-mail.The Social Studies concentration is considering opening its required yearlong Social Studies 10 course to any interested sophomore and then having students apply to the concentration...
...Lastly, those hoping to find rich descriptions of the Indian culture or landscape should pick up Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book...
...awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry in the past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients include Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, and Mary Oliver. “The Golden Rose is very good luck,” said Der-Hovanessian, noting that several recipients have gone on to win Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Ferlinghetti read first from his older and better recognized works, including the 1958 collection, “A Coney Island...