Word: aid
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...administrators there are hoping for more students interested in science. In January, Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid Richard Shaw told the Yale Daily News, "Any kind of extraordinary investment in the future is going to have a huge impact on students' impressions...
Yale is hardly alone in its interest in Stanford: according to Stanford Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Robert M. Kinnally, university administrators from all over the world regularly visit the lush Palo Alto, Calif. campus to figure out what's behind the university's success. He sees about a dozen a year, and turns another dozen away...
...instances where the government has bought out white farmers, the land has found its way into the hands of the president's cronies rather than being redistributed among the rural poor. Western donors, on whom Zimbabwe is increasingly dependent, weren't impressed either, with the IMF suspending aid until Mugabe restores the rule of law. But that may not happen until after the ruling party feels confident about the outcome of the election...
...deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors as Emmanuel d'Harcourt, 34, a program manager for the International Rescue Committee, that means having to build a health-care system in the midst of a full-blown health crisis, improvising with scarce foreign aid and an overburdened Ministry of Health. "There is so little room for error," he says. "The resources are so scarce. It's like parking a car in a space with a millimeter of clearance on each side...
...that it cannot even repopulate itself: 1 out of every 9 mothers dies in childbirth--compared with 1 in 4,000 in the U.S.--and 40% of children die before age five. When we developed this story idea, we wanted to ensure it would be supplemented by an aid effort that would allow readers to help out. Working with the IRC and NetAid--a U.N. group that uses the Internet to help emerging nations--we developed the idea of creating "birthing kits," which will be distributed in Rwanda. The medical content of the kits was developed by the IRC, which...