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...Kill Hunger at the Source How can you spend three pages saying food aid doesn't alleviate the causes of famine [June 25-July 2] without once citing the most basic cause: overpopulation. Japan learned this more than 50 years ago and now it has been one of the most prosperous nations on earth. China and India are also curbing birth rates and their economies have vastly improved. You can search for those "longer-term solutions," but you never state the simplest answer. Fewer mouths to feed means more food to eat. Brian Bate, Cebu, The Philippines
...July 30, for example, Lorenzo Cesa, leader of the Union of Christian Democrats (UDC), had this response when a deputy resigned over a tryst with a prostitute in a Rome hotel: Cesa called for what he dubbed a "family reunion" stipend so parliamentarians can afford to spend more time with their loved ones. "Loneliness," he explained, "is a very serious thing." Meanwhile, not to be outdone, some center-left leaders have been sullied by leaks of intercepted phone calls with prominent financiers mired in a market-rigging scandal...
...Hamas hasn't set up Shari'a courts. Without any help from the regular police, prosecutors and judges--all of whom have been barred from returning to work by the Palestinian government--Hamas is slowly trying to train itself in the administration of Palestinian law. Mushtaha and his officers spend most of their time delivering subpoenas and telling the families of wanted men to turn the suspects in. In Gazan neighborhoods, everyone knows everyone else, and there's no place to hide: crooks certainly can't flee to Israel...
Take a calculated risk. Figure out how much you can lose without losing sleep, and don't spend a penny more unless you have hard evidence of success. Lehman, who is now a counselor for SCORE, a group that advises small businesses, began with just $10,000. He invested more as sales took off and he could justify opening new stores...
...Amount a Chengdu panda-breeding center used to spend every month to clean up nearly a ton of panda droppings...