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...hard to grasp the impact diarrhea has on people's lives across Africa and Asia. The disease kills more children than either malaria or AIDS, stunts growth and forces millions--adults and children alike--to spend weeks at a time off work or school, which hits both a country's economy and its citizens' chances of a better future. In countless villages like Sogola, where people have long drawn water from unreliable wells, diarrhea kills so many that there is a general sense of resignation, as if watching children die is simply one of life's inevitable tragedies...
...recent episode, seeing the Glee kids' insensitivity to the challenges faced by their disabled friend, Mr. Schuester ordered all of them to spend three hours a day in a wheelchair and learn for themselves what it was like to walk in their friend's shoes--or roll in his chair. A second subplot explored the love and tension between a flamboyantly gay kid and his devoted, conflicted dad. A third forced us to revisit the judgment we'd reached about the show's most gleefully conniving character, cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, who has all the charm and subtlety...
Nevertheless, Toyota, which has seen its sales in the U.S. fall 28%, was planning to spend more than $1 billion on advertising, incentives and "incremental" production, starting in the fourth quarter. "You can't save your way through a recession; you've got to sell," Carter told reporters recently. The question now is whether consumers will still want...
...Left Washington to spend her junior year studying abroad as part of a yearlong course with University for Foreigners Perugia in Italy...
...world has spent the past six months wondering how - and with whom - Silvio Berlusconi spends his Saturday nights. But the combative, scandal-plagued Prime Minister of Italy would prefer to talk about his mornings instead. "Do you know how I've been forced to spend my Saturday mornings since I entered politics?" Berlusconi once declared to business leaders in Rome. "With my lawyers...