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Why Bats, Rats And Cats Store Different Amounts of Fat
Animals differ in the amount of fat they carry around depending on their species, status and sex. However, the causes of much of this variation have been a mystery. The Bristol study shows that many differences can be understood by considering the strategies...
Triple Challenge of Unemployment, Poverty And Inequality Needing Attention in South Africa
As the ANC celebrates its 100 years of existence, President Jacob Zuma says the triple challenge of unemployment, poverty and inequality has been identified as needing attention. How People Arrived Here: challenges of unemployment, inequality in age in...
How is the Economy Healing?
The BBC News Web site just put up a report whose lead sentence is optimistic, at least on the surface: The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its services index rose to 52.6 last month from 52 in November. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. Needless...
Sierra Leone to Receive World Bank Funding to Tackle Poverty And Promote Growth
The World Bank has, through one of its agencies the International Development Association (IDA), provided credit to the tune of 15.5 million special drawing rights to Sierra Leone to combat poverty and promote growth, Sierra Leone’s Information Attache...
The Potential for Dialog
Whatever we may say about issues, it would appear that the British Parliament is better equipped in argue its way out of economic crisis than is the United States government. One reason may be that none of the Members of Parliament have achieved their...
Government By Shareholders?
It would appear that Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, as self-appointed representatives of the rich and mighty, have managed to scuttle plans for a Greek referendum on the proposed European Union bailout package. The most positive reaction to their...
More Yemenis Slip Into Hunger As The Country Faces Serious Humanitarian Situation
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the deteriorating food security in Yemen caused by rising food prices, severe fuel shortages and political instability, is severely straining peoples’ ability to feed their families.
Amnesty International Urges Zimbabwe to Provide Education for Displaced Children
The human rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has called on the Zimbabwean government to ensure that children living in the settlements it created to re-house those made homeless by its controversial 2005 mass forced eviction program, codenamed...
