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...costly or shocking, however, as that undertaken in Somalia from August 1992 to March 1994.” Although American troops had been greeted as liberators at first, “Operation RESTORE HOPE” turned sour very rapidly after local warlords, fearing loss of power, began targeting the foreign troops under anti-imperialistic slogans. When the public back home saw the footage of American corpses being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, the Clinton administration decided to back off. But while there were no more body-bags coming back to America, problems for Somalia and its people have...
...month pilot in Namibia, beginning next fall. Sengeh says they hope to develop a final product by the end of that period. According to team member Zoë Sachs-Arellano ’06-’07, the group will partner with the Namibia Connection Youth Network to target people in different villages who will help them distribute the technology to rural areas of the country. “It’s a very exciting project even compared to other organizations and jobs in the sector right now,” she says. “People here...
...Speaking before a meeting of the full Faculty, Smith said the percentage was a target for the next couple years, but that he did not expect FAS to make up the full $100 million—representing about 8 percent of the entire FAS budget of $1.2 billion—before next year’s budget is due in March...
...Afghanistan - the war that President-elect Barack Obama pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens...
...this therapy, a non-toxic chemical is injected or applied to a lesion where a disease is present, and then light is shone to activate the chemical. Once activated, the chemical creates compounds like free radicals that become toxic to the target cells...