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...ambition is to exterminate the word 'bumbling' from the vocabulary of profilers," says Boris Johnson, the Tory candidate to become mayor of London. "There's going to be a massive stamping down on the bumbling. Much less bumbling." A quick search on Google reveals the scale of the problem: a combination of the words Boris Johnson and bumbling produces more than 27,600 results. Sample sentence: "Everyone keeps telling me Boris Johnson's bumbling idiot routine is just that - a routine. I'm not so sure...
...overwhelming scientific evidence, that hiv is the principal cause of aids. Granted, his behind-the-scenes diplomacy has shown some success in forging a compromise between Mugabe and the opposition. Mbeki also has a point that some foreign activists assume a patrician, even racist, tone toward Africa's aids problem, and that factors such as poverty also contribute to the spread of the disease. But independent-minded stubbornness can look like callousness when millions of lives are at stake. Mbeki compounded his image problem, Gevisser argues, by not using the media effectively; his opponents' ability to get their positions across...
...will bring in about $1 million for Afghanistan, a blip compared to the more than $1 billion that poppies will earn. Stoddard says that farmers who manage to export their fruit can make as much as poppy farmers per acre - around $1,600 to $2,000 per year. The problem is that most farmers are not selling for export, and earn just a few hundred dollars per acre a year from fruit. That keeps poppies looking pretty attractive...
...driving Priuses,” he said. “The fact is that most of our greenhouse gas emissions come from all the things we consume.” But condemning an economist’s advocacy of consumption and growth as the cause of climate change problems is an oversimplification of the issue, according to Kolstad. “Growth in and of itself is fine—in fact, it’s good for the people who are not well off,” Kolstad said. “But it’s the nature...
...government to explore legalization policies. Preston later said that while immigration is a civil issue, it is often thought of as a criminal matter. “The words criminal and alien have gotten into the debate in a very inappropriate way,” she said. The problem of illegal immigrants has been a powerful political issue in recent years because of conflicts over services, especially the increased burden on local schools and hospitals, Preston said. While this new population is helping to meet the demand for labor, “how those people are incorporated into American society...