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• Kenya: 10 million risk hunger after harvests fail
NAIROBI, Kenya - Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday. The government declared a national emergency and will lift the import duty on corn until the next major harvest ...
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The big change between now and a couple of months ago is that the government is backing Citigroup’s balance sheet,” said Gary Townsend, a veteran analyst who now runs hedge fund Hill-Townsend Capital. “The government has a lot of leverage that ...
• Report: NASA inspector general not effective
WASHINGTON - Congressional auditors say that NASA's in-house financial watchdog is doing little to unearth waste and abuse at the space agency. The Government Accountability Office compared NASA's inspector general to 27 other federal agencies and ...
• More Americans obese than merely overweight
WASHINGTON - The number of obese American adults outweighs the number of those who are merely overweight, according to the latest statistics from the federal government. Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than ...
• Alabama sheriff to give up profits from jail food
Clemon shows that Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett has promised to use all government funding he receives for food to actually feed prisoners in the county lockup, which holds about 300 men and women. That's a change from the past, when Bartlett ...