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Pope John Paul's third tour of Africa high lights the complex is sues facing some of the world's fastest-growing churches...
...Middle East and the goal of improving living standards in the developing world as points on the same continuum. Kevin S. Kellems, a senior adviser who has worked with Wolfowitz for the past four years, says: "What keeps me coming back for more is the unique opportunity for an individual to make a big difference to individuals around the world." Wolfowitz promises he will be "results-driven." He has already spoken out against agricultural subsidies in rich countries that inevitably hurt farmers in the developing world - subsidies that were raised by George W. Bush. He says that the development...
...partly because of the diplomatic gridlock, a new crisis is looming. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently warned that North Korea, a country where U.N. agencies estimate that more than a third of young children are chronically malnourished, could be on the brink of another deadly food shortage. Food aid has propped up the North since the mid-1990s, when famine killed between 1 million and 3 million people. But major contributors, including the U.S. and Japan, are reluctant to keep feeding North Korea while Kim refuses to relinquish his nuclear arsenal. The WFP is trying to provide...
Responding to pressure from members of Third World organizations, who sought a center that would cater specifically to their needs, then-University President Derek C. Bok formed a committee to investigate this idea...
...some members of the Third World organizations said at the time that the foundation, which still exists, failed to address their initial goals...