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...only I could feed him a potion and make him young again.' MONICA XANGATHI, Johannesburg resident, reminiscing about former leader Nelson Mandela as poverty and political strife continue to worsen in South Africa...
...other NGOs. Even though stupidity has been rife in implementation, the wealthiest donor nations have defaulted on pledges and must now increase aid by $18 billion a year to meet the original goal. Assistance has been anemic when it was supposed to be titanic. Bad situations will likely worsen with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access for the exports of developing nations. Droughts, commodity market speculation, and spiked food, oil, and biofuel prices also bring sorrow. While...
...Monday cut the amount of cash that banks must deposit with the central bank in an attempt to loosen credit. "Credit markets are quite global," says Kirby Daley, senior strategist at financial services firm Newedge Group in Hong Kong. "It is inescapable, if the credit crisis continues to worsen, that Asia must be affected...
...prognosis seemed to worsen for Europe's banks, governments rushed to calm the public by promising new guarantees for their savings. On Sunday, Germany said it would back up all private savings deposits and many other savings schemes - a move that could cover some $785 billion but for which details are still sketchy...
Longer growing seasons in a warmer world may further worsen allergies. A study in September's Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported data from 1982 to 2001 showing that, for example, increasingly early pollination of the European olive in Spain led to higher overall pollen counts, similar to what is found in warmer parts of the Mediterranean; comparable outcomes can be expected in other temperate parts of the world as climate change kicks in. A similar effect will also be felt in the northward shift of what is known as the hardiness zones - meaning that northern countries where allergies...