August 2011
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WatchMy Tropical Storm #Irene Experience 16 (VIDEO: river across the street from my place) - Mon 5pm
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Thomas R. Nides: 10 Things You Should Know About... →
Do you ever wonder what the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) do every day and what it means for you?
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WatchThe “DC Earthquake Lawn Chair” of My Tropical Storm #Irene Experience 12 - Sun 2pm
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WatchMy Tropical Storm #Irene Experience 11 (Wind) - Sun 2pm
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WatchMy Hurricane #Irene Experience 8 (Wind Picking Up) - Sun 9am
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AIDS: The 30 years war | The Economist 2011-06-02 →
Dr Schwartländer and his team looked at ten approaches to treating and preventing AIDS, ranging from drugs, via intervening in the prostitution industry, to searching for joint savings by collaborating with other areas of international development. They then devised a computer model that attempted to show how these would play out in each of 139 low- and middle-income countries. The result (see...
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Amid budget crisis, a defense of foreign aid - The... →
Is there a cost to taxpayers? Of course. But all of our foreign aid programs and foreign policy initiatives— from sending diplomats to Afghanistan to helping reverse the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa—barely make up 1 percent of the annual budget. It is a relatively small investment for such a great return. This year alone we will spend approximately $700 billion on our military. The entire...
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In Sierra Leone, Heartening Progress for Pregnant... →
Sierra Leone is at the vanguard of a revolution — heavily subsidized for now by international donors — that appears to be substantially lessening health dangers here in one of the riskiest countries in the world for pregnant women and small children.
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David Cameron: The time has come for African free... →
Trade and enterprise have the power to change people’s lives. As we are seeing now on every continent, what will lift tens of millions out of poverty in the long run is the dynamic engine of economic growth. And that means African countries buying from and selling to each other, doing business with one another and the world.
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ANALYSIS-Barriers curb trade in East Africa common... →
The five-nation East African Community (EAC) regional bloc made up of regional economic giant Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda, formed a common market last July to increase trade through free movement of goods, services, capital and people across borders.
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WatchONE Mom Can Change The World
A group of American female bloggers show their support of the ONE Campaign.
Share your voice… become a ONE member.
Sign petition asking world leaders to:
“Please urgently provide the full funding that the UN has identified as necessary to help people in the Horn of Africa, and please keep your promises to deliver the long term solutions which could prevent...
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WatchVIDEO: Interview with #RedSox lefty -and cancer survivor - Jon Lester on his involvement with @LIVESTRONG.
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75 minute documentary.
In 2010 filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky traveled to Nepal and Uganda, two countries emerging from conflict and struggling with poverty, to find the answer to one question: What does it take to educate a girl?
What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, To...
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Ban Ki-moon and the Age of Sustainable Development... →
From his first days in office, Ban emphasized that many or most of the world’s greatest challenges come down to a simple yet stark reality: we are now a crowded, interconnected, global society, with seven billion people struggling to find a foothold on a highly vulnerable planet. The challenges of feeding the world, keeping it safe from epidemic diseases such as malaria and AIDS, and combining...
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Universal Basic Education - NYTimes.com Joanna... →
Universal education is not only critical to fighting poverty, as Mr. Kristof points out, but it is also critical to forging peace.
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