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...blocks of stability for a new order: the nascent Iraqi security forces to whom the U.S. hopes to transfer security responsibility; the oil pipelines that represent the economic lifeline of a new government; and local and national political and administrative leaders. They have also taken a massive and bloody toll among Shiite and Kurdish civilians, who they have sought to provoke into a sectarian retaliation that would deepen the rift between those communities and the Sunnis...
...death toll in Darfur from violence, disease, and famine since civil war erupted in the region in February 2003 is estimated to be as high as 400,000 by some experts...
...what's all the fuss about? The latest CDC paper estimated that 112,000 extra deaths each year are associated with obesity. That's a pretty big number, but a year ago, a different group of researchers at the CDC, using older data, put the toll for poor diet and physical inactivity even higher, at 400,000 deaths. Earlier this year, they admitted that they had made a mistake in their calculations and that the correct number was closer to 365,000 deaths. "It's really an evolving science," says Dr. George Mensah, acting director of the National Center...
...path to ruin, reflecting unsustainable demands on soils, waters, and the biota imposed by peoples driven to survive in the present without the luxury of planning for the future. It is a sad fact that aspirations for poverty alleviation and environmental protection are often antithetical. Added to this, the toll from disasters, natural and man-made, is in many cases catastrophic, and the situation is getting worse, not better. Unanticipated variability in climate—droughts, floods, and violent storms—pose problems for those least equipped to cope, a problem not confined to Africa but one experienced increasingly...
Living with extended uncertainty takes its toll, and for the sake of my friends, my family, and my sanity I needed to have my plans for next year settled. “Boston’s great,” people said. “It’s an amazing place to be right out of college.” I couldn’t blame them. They’d never been to New York...