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...nonsense Johns Hopkins University, for example, engineering professor William Ball says more than half of his department's students have signed up with the school's EWB chapter, which is engaged in long-term work to improve irrigation in rural South Africa. "I know for a fact that many students come here because we talk about this sort of work," says Ball. "And that's the kind of student we want to attract...
...study released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Child Trends that examined factors like health and education, low-income children are better off in poor, rural areas (the Midwest, for example) than in wealthier and more urban locales (the Northeast). "It is surprising," says report co-author William O'Hare about the plight of poor kids in rich states. "There is a crucial sense of community lacking in the metropolitan areas...
CONTEXT On Nov. 14, Joe Horn, 61, of Pasadena, Texas, killed two men he saw robbing his neighbor's house. On Nov. 22, 19-year-old William Wilkerson Jr. killed a man who was threatening Wilkerson and his girlfriend as they sat in his car in Palm Beach...
...import volume in 2007 will be nearly twice what it was in 2002. Over the past five years, the average import cost of a liter has risen 30%, and the dollar value per case has tripled, to about $70, roughly $18 a bottle. "America is ultimately the market," says William Giles of Honolulu-based World Sake Imports. "America will influence the direction and variation in sake as it goes forward." Some importers expect the value of sake imports to double again in a little more than three years...
...William R. Brown, PAUMA VALLEY, CALIF...