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...markets and stunted farming in poorer countries. With food relatively abundant, Western countries over time also reduced the amount of assistance going to poor countries to improve farming practices and build agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation systems and dams. Global assistance for agricultural development plummeted from about 18.7% of total foreign assistance in 1979 to 5.2% in 2006, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The West last year donated $1.2 billion to help Africa's 400 million small farmers. Adjusted for inflation, that is about the same amount donated annually more than 30 years ago, according...
...driving commuters out of their cars and onto buses and trains, as the number of Americans using mass transportation reached record levels in the first quarter of this year, up 3% to 2.6 billion trips. If fuel costs remain high, transport officials see 2008 ridership exceeding last year's total of 10.3 billion, the highest mark in 50 years...
...Total Daze" And yet the battlefield seems an imperfect environment for widespread prescription of these medicines. LeJeune, who spent 15 months in Iraq before returning home in May 2004, says many more troops need help - pharmaceutical or otherwise - but don't get it because of fears that it will hurt their chance for promotion. "They don't want to destroy their career or make everybody go in a convoy to pick up your prescription," says LeJeune, now 34 and living in Utah. "In the civilian world, when you have a problem, you go to the doctor, and you have therapy...
...clearly taking advantage of the opportunities offered by his arraignment in a heavily guarded, high-tech courtroom at Guantanamo on charges of helping to murder nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks. For one thing, his courtroom appearance offered him his first chance in five years of near-total isolation to communicate with his four co-accused...
...General Education Standing Committee approved six classes in their last meeting of the year, bringing the total number of Gen Ed courses to 45. Sixteen of these classes will be taught in Fall 2008, and 20 will be taught in Spring 2009. Gen Ed committee chair Jay M. Harris said that he’s hoping for 64 Gen Ed classes to be taught per semester by 2010. Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics,” whose proposal the Economics Department submitted last February, has yet to be approved for Gen Ed credit. But two introductory...