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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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Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding
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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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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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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
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Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.
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In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles if it was a woman, she was likely raped if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
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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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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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We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
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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.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
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Random violence is incredibly infectious
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