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Mandela retired from politics in 1999. But he has remained active, continuing his work through the Nelson Mandela Foundation (ably run by Achmat Dangor). After his retirement, Mandela publicly expressed his regret at not having acted sooner on HIV/AIDS. The foundation set up an AIDS program and helped launch 46664 (named after Mandela's prison number), a global HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. The current focus of the foundation is its Centre of Memory and Dialogue, which is producing an interactive archive of Mandela's life and times, with the goal of applying his lessons to critical social issues. In 2003 Mandela...
...hormonal ones, that are associated with the onset of puberty. Overnutrition prior to adolescence may affect the hormonal system and may produce too much growth hormone prior to puberty, so that sex steroids are produced earlier. And if that comes too early, then the youth will peak out sooner, and will not become as tall in adulthood as someone who had better nutrition. Also, the overload of carbohydrates and fats in a fast-food diet may hinder the consumption of micronutrients essential to growth...
...This new African impatience may be having an effect. In his inauguration speech, Mugabe unexpectedly raised the possibility of sharing power with the opposition. "It is my hope that sooner rather than later, we shall as diverse political parties hold consultations toward such serious dialogue as will minimise our differences and enhance the area of unity and cooperation," he said. Mugabe's sudden appetite for peaceful talks may be mere rhetoric; certainly, no one expects "Uncle Bob" to step down anytime soon. But it could be that even he, the most ferocious of the dinosaurs, realizes that their...
Barack Obama's great insight is to blame "speculators" for raising oil prices artificially. This could even be true, but if so, it's irrelevant. Speculators cannot affect the price of oil in the long run. What speculators do is get us to the long run sooner. If they think underlying forces of supply and demand will ultimately result in oil at $200 per bbl., they will bid up the price until it is close to $200 per bbl. already. Similarly, if speculators think the price of oil will go down, they will drive it down more quickly. So, actually...
...free kick with a far-post header to level the game in the 86th minute. Yet the Russians held together and then took charge in overtime. "The most important thing is our movement," noted Pavlyuchenko. "Hiddink said that if we kept going, the Dutch would be worn out sooner or later. I have no idea where our energy came from. We were very good going forward - the attack was supported not by one, but by three or four people." That continued in the overtime, when Russian sub Dmitri Torbinski, a wisp of a man who had tortured the Greeks...