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There Seems To Be This Sense Among Even Well-meaning Americans That Africa Is This Black Hole Of Murder And Mutilation That Can Never Be Fixed, No Matter What Aid Is Brought In.

A Few Countries Like Sri Lanka And Honduras Have Led The Way In Slashing Maternal Mortality.

The Intelligence Community Is So Vast That More People Have Top Secret Clearance Than Live In Washington. The U.s. Will Spend More On The War In Afghanistan This Year, Adjusting For Inflation, Than We Spent On The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812, The Mexican-american War, The Civil War And The Spanish-american War Combined.

The News Media's Silence, Particularly Television News, Is Reprehensible. If We Knew As Much About Darfur As We Do About Michael Jackson, We Might Be Able To Stop These Things From Continuing.

There Could Be A Powerful International Women's Rights Movement If Only Philanthropists Would Donate As Much To Real Women As To Paintings And Sculptures Of Women.