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...basic plan is simple. Schools will give a tiny percentage of the licensing fees received for school logo-bearing merchandise and participate with the students in a monitoring operation aimed at ensuring that a code of reasonably fair labor practices is being observed...
...Tired of lawyers? Website netwills.com claims to have simplified the task of preparing a will. You can enter such estate-planning information as the amount of your assets and the number of your beneficiaries and get an estimate of the cost of completing the document. Netwills estimates that a basic package that includes health-care directives and designation of power of attorney can cost anywhere from $300 to $500 per couple, depending on where you happen to live and the complexity of your will...
...unchecked in the developing world. Based on 75 factors that have historically tended to destabilize governments, the panel predicted that the AIDS death toll and the economic costs of battling the disease could cause the failure of redevelopment efforts and democratic experiments throughout the Third World. The basic problems are shortened life expectancy (which has been nearly halved in some African nations) and the creation of a disenfranchised poor population with troves of orphans and broken families. AIDS, the report predicts, will tear through sub-Saharan Africa over the next decade and then through the nations of the former Soviet...
...year war with Iran. As a result of the economic collapse, Iraqi civil servants now earn about $2.50 per month. Engineers have abandoned their professions to drive taxis, and academics sell their books for spare cash in street flea markets. Meanwhile, Iraqi hospitals scramble to maintain a supply of basic goods such as sutures, transfusions and disinfectant...
...instance, Biological Sciences 11: "Basic Principles of Biochemistry and Cell Biology," which will be replaced by Biological Sciences 54, will omit material that is already covered in organic chemistry courses and will add more advanced material...