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If you think you have a good vocabulary, head on over to Free Rice and test yourself. For every word you correctly define, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice to the World Food Program. The site is catching on--it's facebook group has over 100,000 members and it has donated over ten billion grains since the site launched in October.
September 25, 2008
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The following appeared as an op-ed in The Guardian Online on Thursday, September 25th.
This week, over 150 world leaders are gathered at the UN for the opening of the general assembly. If recent years are any indication, news outlets will focus on the disagreements aired on Tuesday, when George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium.
But the real drama occurs today (Thursday), when the same global leaders that butted heads earlier in the week take stock of one of the most far-reaching and noble statements of international cooperation ever agreed upon, the millennium development goals.
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