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...Rice's speech at the Harvard Business School (HBS) was part of a day-long conference, "Reversing the Brain Drain," organized by the school's Africa Business Club...
...Susan Rice urged more than 500 business professionals and students Saturday to push for "the transition from aid to trade in the next century," explaining that such a long-term approach will promote the best interests of Africa...
...Rice, who is responsible for all aspects of U.S. policy on Africa as special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs, said, "The U.S. can hardly afford to ignore any emerging market or Africa's 700 million consumers...
According to Rice, there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all of Africa, and 50 percent of all Africans are under the age of 15. She hinted that these statistics, along with Africa's climbing growth rates, are just the tip of the African business opportunity iceberg...
Despite the doomsday alarms being sounded by environmentalists, genetic engineers at Monsanto argue that there is no real risk of pollen from Terminator plants causing widespread sterilization in other plants--and they're probably right. Gene drift does occur, but nature doesn't make it easy. Many crops, like rice, are mostly self-pollinated. As for crops that are pollinated by wind or insects, precautions like planting border fields to keep crops isolated help confine genes. What's more, crops tend to mature at the same time--sending out a great puff of pollen all at once--while wild plants...