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Economic growth must be distributed more equitably. Typically, in most of the developing countries, the upper 20% of the population receives 55% of the national income, and the lowest 20% receives 5%. In the rural areas, this is reflected in the concentration of land ownership. According to a survey by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, the wealthiest 20% of the land owners in most developing countries own between 50% and 60% of the cropland. The roughly 100 million small farms in the developing world-those less than 5 hectares-are concentrated on only 20% of the cropland...
Tuition hikes are already at "their upper limit." Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and a member of the group, said yesterday...
...magnificent temple of the god Amon was begun near modern Luxor in Upper Egypt around 2000 B.C. and was continuously added to by generations of succeeding rulers. Now, however, this temple in all its splendor may have a rival. A team from New York's Brooklyn Museum has begun excavating the grounds of the temple of Mut (pronounced Moot), Amon's consort, a few hundred meters south of the temple of Amon, and has hit archaeological pay dirt. The new site, which was used continuously from around 1400 B.C. until as late as Roman times, not only links...
Harvard's offensive punch was provided by hustling sophomore forwards Ellen Hart and Sally Kingsberg and senior Sukie McGraw. Hart, the Crimson's second leading scorer, poked in a McGraw feed at 4:10 of the opening stanza and blasted an unassisted shot into the upper right corner of the net midway through the second half to lead the way with goals...
Julia and Hellman met in their early teens and remained close friends until Julia's death. The scenes of their childhood games, their visits to Julia's family estate and their austere dinners with Julia's wealthy Upper East Side grandparents-- who serve sherbet at dinner after eating fish to clear the palate before the meat course--are among the best in the movie. In these sequences, the basis for the girls' later actions is established. Julia becomes innocently but intensely aware of the inequalities that will attract her to a workers' community in Vienna, shaking her head sorrowfully...