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...class started two days ago." Rodriguez now holds lessons in a rented mansion, using proceeds from her adjacent spa, coffeehouse and guesthouse. Though women still apply in the hundreds, this class has only 10. "There's no funding," she says. "You can get $1 million for a road easier than $10,000 for training. But this is one of the few industries where women can work, be sole owners of a business and control the money themselves...
...hovers between $50 and $65. And that's not likely to change anytime soon, given rising demand from China and India. That gives oil-producing autocracies such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan and now Nigeria more money to crush or buy off internal dissent. And it makes it easier for them to win friends and influence people around the world. A decade ago, authoritarian governments were largely on the defensive. Today Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is cloning himself in Bolivia and Ecuador. And Iran is on the verge of dominating the Middle East...
...More important, she suspects, is the availability of treatment that may be less tailored but easier to stick to. In poorer countries, tailoring is virtually impossible: "getting some medication out to the people" is all that matters, says the University of Auckland's Rodgers. The polypill will be relatively cheap because the patents on all of its components have expired. "And we know these agents work," says Rodgers...
...insurgents aren't the only ones trying to bypass the walls. Local civilians have also dragged the barriers aside just to ease access to their own neighborhood. The U.S. has tried to accommodate residents' desire for normalcy by modifying the barrier to provide easier access to a local school. They're also trying to make it easier to reach a gas station that lies on the wrong side of the wall. But, while the barriers can be modified, it is not possible to so severely limit movement in and out of Ghazaliya without harming the neighborhood's already devastated economy...
...process became easier when we established more concrete criteria,†Nguyen said. “We decided that the recipient had to have made a lasting impact, not just performed their job well...