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...make a big contribution to education, HIV/AIDS, the main killer diseases, building up a proper peacekeeping force, we won't reach the millennium development goals [targets for poverty reduction agreed to in 2000] or anywhere near. We want a doubling of aid, up to $25 billion in the next few years, so we're hoping America will do [its part...
When one enters the World Bank’s main building, the first thing that makes an impression is the size of the place. Covering an entire city block, the MC building is a veritable palace of glass and concrete in the heart of Washington, a few blocks from the White House. The main atrium, which spans all 13 flights of stairs, illuminates an open area of marble flooring the size of a football field that plays host to a veritable rainforest of flowering exotic plants and a waterfall as well as permanent sculptures and traveling art exhibits. In each...
Night falls early near the equator, and by 6:30 p.m. it’s dusky here in suburban Santa Ana, Costa Rica. By 10:00 p.m. it is pitch black on the main thoroughfare through the village, a road with no name and no street lamps, like every other street here. Tonight it is raining-raining black oil, slicking roads, roofs, every breathable molecule of air-and I am standing outside in the pitch darkness on the no-name main street, waiting to catch a bus to Piedades, another suburb of San Jose: I’m going night...
...kayaking, fencing, handball, hockey and softball - gather dust. Posses of stray dogs roam across the expanses of untended grounds, loose electrical cables hang over dented fences and garbage mounds pile up behind chained gates. Greece's military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance and upkeep are estimated at about $100 million a year. "Who knows what they're planning to do with this," huffs a soldier guarding the main entrance to the Helliniko complex. Flyblown, empty arenas...
...learn something from a man who saw life as serious and deeply absurd, and who drew on both to fuel his deep sense of purpose. "I've been a fan of Lincoln's from an early age," Conan O'Brien told TIME, "and really fascinated by him. The main thing for me is that he was really funny. He chose the right words and kept things short, and those are two secrets to being timelessly funny. My favorite example was after the battle of Chickamauga. One of the Union generals had behaved badly and had become unnerved. Lincoln said...