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...Earth; by the reckoning of the United Nations, Sierra Leone is the worst. The average life expectancy in this tiny West African nation is 38 years. More than 100 people from a population of 4 million die each day from starvation. The infant mortality rate is 164 per thousand. Once renowned for its pure diamonds, Sierra Leone is now infamous for the bloodlust of its rebels - the guerrillas of the Revolutionary United Front. Kidnapping, mutilation and the raping of children have relegated sport to a low place on the nation's priorities list. In 1996, Sierra Leone sent...
Online education includes everything from learning a foreign language to mastering investing to creating a Web page. Courses can be free or cost up to several thousand dollars. Students typically log on from a home computer to receive lecture notes, suggested readings and critiques of their work, and to turn in assignments and participate in a chat-room or message-board discussion. More and more classes are being offered in real-time streaming media, meaning that students log on at a designated time and can see their instructor in live video on their computer...
...continue to subscribe to William F. Buckley Jr.'s famous dictum: "I would rather be governed by the first three million five hundred thousand codfish in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University...
...young clergyman is described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...
...Patrolling a major research facility poses some unique problems. Longwood is the land of a thousand labs--literally--where each room has an sticker warning about the flammability and toxicity of the chemicals inside. O'Connor and the other Longwood officers keep a special watch on the animal research labs, targets of numerous protests and threats...