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...authors of the study don't take into account the overall economic development of a country, only the access that men and women have to resources. This levels the playing field between economic powerhouses like the U.S. and third-world nations like Ethiopia. The result is that countries where there are more high-paying jobs for everyone are not given an advantage over countries where there is little economic opportunity. It's easy to understand the thinking here - fairness, basically - but the data does not paint an overall picture of how women are faring in their daily lives...
...even our valiant efforts couldn’t affect the painful food waste and water runoff from tray washing, which is starving seals in the third-world, not to mention maintaining the funding of Diamond Magazine. Somehow there are still students who fail to see tray-less dining’s clear benefits...
...three shows since, funny has indeed remained funny. While the comedy stays constant, the cause changes from year to year. In 2006, for example, the HCC donated the show’s proceeds to Deep Roots, a third-world scholarship organization. In 2007, HRC gave their earnings to Kiva.org, which supplies micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations...
Google, whose announcement of the grant is part of the company’s effort to facilitate third-world development, cited the Harvard team’s innovation in developing metrics to deal with such intangibles as bargaining ability, number-sense, and money management skills...
...family's planned travel to third-world countries prompted her to research other vaccinations. Her children are now vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, polio, Hepatitis B and typhoid fever because the risks of those diseases overshadow the risks of complications from the vaccines. Jane said she hopes parents will take a more active role in deciding if and when to vaccinate their children. "I want parents to educate themselves," she said. "Be educated. Vaccination is in general a great thing, but we need more research. More and more parents are saying something's not right. They know their children. We need...