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...International Rescue Committee, the vast majority are women and children. In today's wars, fighting is no longer confined to the battlefield; 90% of those killed or wounded are civilians. Often driven from their homes, women are targeted for ethnic cleansing, raped, widowed and left as the sole providers for their families in societies that, in many cases, show little respect for their rights. The most urgent tasks of rebuilding daily life in a devastated nation--feeding a family, doing the laundry, taking children to school, shopping for basic necessities--fall to women. These challenges are critical to stabilizing...
...monumental style was meant to trumpet the permanence of National Socialism. It outlived that twisted purpose to take on a more benign and, for many Berliners, vital role. When West Berlin was blockaded by Soviet troops in 1948 - 60 years ago this June - Tempelhof served as the city's sole lifeline to the West. Cargo planes, known as "raisin bombers," ferried in supplies - from potatoes to Hershey's chocolate bars - every three minutes around the clock for 15 months. The place became a symbol for the West's cold war resolve, which for Berliners culminated in John F. Kennedy...
While looking for bacteria living in the soil that could remove toxins from cellulose and other decaying plant matter, the researchers used antibiotics as an experimental control and discovered that many strains of bacteria were able to survive on antibiotics as their sole source of carbon...
...Asian firms) and education (Latin America prepares "too many psychologists, not enough engineers"). Washington, he writes, is fecklessly complicit: "The Bush Administration, absurdly, [has] closed its mind to any plan that would include a greater U.S. financial commitment to growth in Latin America. For Bush and his advisers, the sole solution to the region's problems [is] free trade." Oppenheimer does see hope in successful mixed capitalist-socialist models like Chile and Brazil...
...post-graduate fellowships from 14 to 28, hire a full-time public interest director to counsel students, and increase funding for summer public interest opportunities, according to a statement Koh sent to the law school community. “Our philosophy has always been that money not be the sole deciding factor in a student’s choice of a public interest position during any phase of his or her career,” said Janet Conroy, a spokeswoman for the law school. “We also feel strongly that it’s important to promote...