Word: programed
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...periodically spike to epidemic levels. Malnutrition is a chronic problem here as in much of Africa, with 10% of the children afflicted. And infant mortality rates at 125 deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors as Emmanuel d'Harcourt, 34, a program manager for the International Rescue Committee, that means having to build a health-care system in the midst of a full-blown health crisis, improvising with scarce foreign aid and an overburdened Ministry of Health. "There is so little room for error," he says. "The resources are so scarce...
...demand for a sweeping and unconditional forgiveness of debt pits Njehu and many other protesters against leaders of the world's prosperous countries. To be sure, no one doubts the substantial rewards of debt reduction. A relief program enabled Uganda to save $45 million in debt service in 1999 alone, helping it cut tuition fees and almost double enrollment in primary schools in just two years. "Debt relief for the poorest countries is both a moral and economic imperative," asserts U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers...
...hardly doubt that. With great fanfare, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany and France have all announced sweeping debt cancellations within the past year--a policy that recognized that most of the money was uncollectible. At the same time, the U.S. and its major trading partners have created an incentive program for more than 40 HIPCS (heavily indebted poor countries), which could make an additional $50 billion to $90 billion available...
...browser as a separate consumer item, but then it decided to include--or bundle--the browser in Windows in 1995. The upshot was that Windows users got a free browser when they bought their PC's--making it awfully hard for Netscape to persuade them to buy its competing program...
...Microsoft's Internet-ready video-game console, the X-box, is slated to hit store shelves in time for X-mas sales. And, yes, by then there will be several powered-by-Windows cell phones on the market. How many night classes you'll have to take to program them is anyone's guess...