I was pretty sure that when Paul Ryan got tapped to be Robin to Mitt Romney’s Batman, it meant we were in for some serious budget talk. Which was great! I love budget talk.
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Ethiopian leader’s death highlights gap between US interests and ideals
LIBREVILLE, Gabon — There was probably no leader on the African continent who exemplified the conflict between the American government’s interests and its highest ideals better than Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia.
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian leader, dies at 57
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s repressive prime minister, who lifted his country from the ruins of civil war and transformed it into one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies and one of the United States government’s closest African allies, died on Monday, state television reported. He was 57.
Food: How bad is the crisis?
Lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 have been jumped on by the international media as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way.
15 innovations making school lunches healthier and more sustainable
As summer draws to a close, it’s time for kids to go back to school. Sadly, this often means a return to terribly unhealthy school lunches filled with fried chicken, pizza pockets, sugary drinks, and high-calorie snacks. School food can jeopardize the health and well-being of America’s next generation, but fortunately, it’s also the best place to start addressing the obesity epidemic—one in three children is obese or overweight, increasing the risks of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and liver problems later in life. This needs to change.
Beyond 7 billion: The coming wave of population growth will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries (series)
Global birthrates are falling. But with many in their fertile years and political and cultural forces against contraception, the population explosion is far from over.
Mali’s prime minister comes under growing pressure to form unity government after 50,000 protest
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Training cutbacks thwart jobless
Companies have dramatically cut training programs for new employees, experts say, worsening a skills gap that’s keeping them from finding qualified job candidates and pushing up unemployment.
Uganda: Weaning Karamoja off food aid
Uganda’s arid northeastern Karamoja region has been dependent on food aid for decades, but new programmes by the government and its partners aim to bring an end to the cycle of relief and see the traditionally nomadic Karimojong become more self-sufficient through more settled livelihoods.
decades on, US starts cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam
DA NANG, Vietnam — In the tropical climate of central Vietnam, weeds and shrubs seem to grow everywhere — except here.Forty years after the United States stopped spraying herbicides in the jungles of Southeast Asia in the hopes of denying cover to Vietcong fighters and North Vietnamese troops, an air base here is one of about two dozen former American sites that remain polluted with an especially toxic strain of dioxin, the chemical contaminant in Agent Orange that has been linked to cancers, birth defects and other diseases.
