Word: zambrano
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...billion poured into sub-Saharan Africa's information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure between 1996 and 2006 came from the private sector. In one sense, that's positive. Those telecom firms aren't diverting money away from other areas no less hungry for investment. But, says Raul Zambrano, ICT adviser in the United Nations Development Program's Bureau for Development Policy, "it doesn't address the issue of development." Just as important as connecting poor people to the Web: giving them more rapid access to birth certificates and government health and education services. So while O3b's plan...
...restore respectful relations with the U.S., since it is the biggest customer of Venezuela's oil industry. Posters calling on Venezuelans to reject the U.S. government adorn the walls of a local meeting space set up near Tagagua for participants in the "Mothers of the Barrio" program. But Yamileth Zambrano, who helps manage that space, doesn't mention foreign policy when asked why she likes the President. Instead, she praises the revolution for funneling oil revenues to the people, which she says previous governments didn...
...While Zambrano hopes his essays will make up for what his scores lack, Wang is concerned about her personal statements, done at odd hours in the week before the deadline. “I’m nervous right now. I actually don’t really think I’ll get in,” Wang says. “I don’t know, I guess have a chance, but I was reading over my essays and modifying them for other schools. And they weren’t the best that it could have been...
...Like Nehamas and Zambrano, Wang moderates such self-doubt with the knowledge that she can’t do anything about it now. “I’ve done the best I can,” she says. “Hopefully, it’s good enough...
...Zambrano, too is looking forward. He writes in his essay that he hopes to become a politician later in life. But Wang is just trying to keep her mind off the process. She’s looking forward to the ice-skating season, and she’s hoping to go to regional competition for Business Professionals of America. Pondering about what going to Harvard would mean is a premature question...