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A little bit of attention can go a long way.

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Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
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The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
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Random violence is incredibly infectious
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I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.
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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.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.
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China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.
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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
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Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
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There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted
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One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.
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Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.
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