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Scientists and wealthy tourists flocked to southern Africa Thursday to watch the first full solar eclipse of the millennium, a midwinter show greeted locally with both enthusiasm and fears for the eyesight of millions of poverty-stricken people.
The eclipse began in Angola and swept eastward across the continent into Zambia, ... |
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The Bush administration is deeply divided over the decision it must soon
make about whether to allow federal funding for research on stem cells that
using fertilized eggs derived from in vitro fertilization. Many scientists,
however, believe that these cells could hold the key to curing diseases and
conditions such as spinal cord injury, ... |
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| BEIJING |
Ten percent of China's budget for lifting rural poor out of poverty are being mismanaged or embezzled, a Chinese official said Tuesday, citing a government study.
The study, which looked at how poverty relief funds were spent in 1997 through 1999, found some money was pocketed by corrupt officials and other funds were spent on inappropriate projects, said Jiang Xiaohua, deputy director of China's poverty alleviation and development office.
Jiang, speaking after a press conference, said the amount misused was "just a small proportion of the total."
China has steadily increased the amount of poverty reduction funding to 24.8 billion yuan (2.9 billion dollars) last year from 9.7 billion yuan in
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| Twenty-two people are killed and more than 100 injured when a bomb ripps through the local offices of the country's ruling Awami League in Narayanganj.
The government has blamed the bomb, the latest in a series to rock the South Asian country, on right-wing parties, but no conclusive links have yet been established.
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