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Iraq: State of Siege The most dangerous development that Americans face in Iraq is the menacing union of Sunni and Shi'ite radicals [April 19]. The members of the two main branches of Islam often don't respect each other. In Iraq there has always been a big gap between the Sunni government under Saddam Hussein and the Shi'ite majority of the population, which was suppressed by the dictator and his followers. Now that Saddam is out and others are in power, both Sunnis and Shi'ites are disappointed and will start to fight hand in hand...
...accomplish--to integrate schools," he says. "But has it done anything to improve academic success? No. It's failed miserably." Black students now have access to newer books in nicer facilities alongside their white peers, but as a group they still perform below white students, an achievement gap that has bedeviled two generations of Topeka educators. On the latest state-administered reading test, for example, 34% of black juniors scored "unsatisfactory," compared to just 13% of whites. Why? Ironically, McFrazier blames the end of desegregation. He argues that the closing of black neighborhood schools--with their traditions, yearbooks, mottoes, fight...
...taken him in like some exotic distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner and his higher-brow fans is telling; indeed, it's almost the point. Somehow Skinner wrings the consciousness of Everyman out of his own idiosyncrasies. His relaxed, chatty raps are littered with arcane references to specific British teenage slang and culture, yet the first album sold...
...foremost, they are much cheaper. The group Médecins Sans Frontières currently procures generic FDCs for its treatment programs at a cost of about $280 per patient per year. By contrast, the cheapest brand name anti-retrovirals sell for $562, or twice as much. This gap will soon double—the Clinton Foundation last month negotiated an agreement with generic manufacturers to supply FDCs to developing nations for as little as $140 per year. If these price differentials don’t seem like a big deal, consider the human cost: PEPFAR has a tightly capped...
AUSTRALIA: That area in the Timor Gap is now the Joint Petroleum Development Area. The Timor Sea Treaty gives you 90% of the taxes and royalties and that's very generous...