Among the 80 countries covered, Nigeria comes last: it is the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013.Boring is bestQuibblers will, of course, find more holes in all this than there are in a chunk of Swiss cheese. Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too
A general election is scheduled for 10 February and, in the lead-up to the election, all the main contenders are looking for an opportunity to prove their toughness. During the ceasefire, Israel prevented any exports from leaving the strip in clear violation of a 2005 accord, leading to a sharp drop in employment opportunities
Oxfam said the wealth of the richest 80 doubled in cash terms between 2009 and 2014, and that there was an increasing tendency for wealth to be inherited and to be used as a lobbying tool by the rich to further their own interests. Inequality has moved up the political agenda over the past half-decade amid concerns that the economic recovery since the global downturn of 2008-09 has been accompanied by a squeeze on living standards and an increase in the value of assets owned by the rich, such as property and shares
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The Order of Things - The New Yorker
Class size has two components, the proportion of classes with fewer than 20 students (30 percent of the faculty resources score) and the proportion with 50 or more students (10 percent of the score). A heterogeneous ranking system works if it focusses just on, say, how much fun a car is to drive, or how good-looking it is, or how beautifully it handles
Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape - Salon.com
Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. I ended up in something I wrote saying in the end I said that the people who did the killing were as much victims as the people they killed because of the scars they had, I can tell you some of the personal stories by some of the people who were in these units witnessed this
The Venus Project Foundation - * Many Benefits of Crushed Raw Garlic, The Wonder Drug
Chopping, mincing, crushing, or pressing garlic and allowing it to sit for 5-10 minutes can help provide enough time for the alliinase and alliin in garlic to interact and form allicin. If you want to reduce it, or if you just want to glow up your skin, then take two cloves of crushed raw garlic regularly with lukewarm water early in the morning
THE ANOMALIST: World News on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Paranormal, and Other Mysteries at the Edge of Science
Maybe we need a good Roswell or Phoenix Lights -esque event to liven things up? Besides that, it's not very helpful when the media is flooded with suspicious evidence (or viral marketing) of very dubious origin like this Slender Alien of Nuevo Laredo Mexico either. An Englishman named Steve Feltham gave up his girlfriend, house, and job in southwest England 34 years ago and settled down on the south shore of Loch Ness to spend his life looking for Nessie
Spoiled Rotten - The New Yorker
Marano, an editor-at-large at Psychology Today, tells about a high school in Washington State that required students to write an eight-page paper and present a ten-minute oral report before graduating. In order to secure this advantage, they will do pretty much anything, which means not just taking care of all the cooking and cleaning but also helping their children with math homework, hiring them S.A.T
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Until she make's her big comeback, feast your eyes on this video Vulture compiled of Miss Piggy doing Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money," and it's all I didn't think I needed
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