World & Nation
The U.N.
May 23, 1991
Narrowing the Gap While there are still horrendous gaps in the level of development between the First and Third Worlds, some gaps have closed during the last four decades.
June 19, 1990
The main U.N. agency for economic development, despairing over the waste of almost a trillion dollars of “peace dividend,” set down sweeping proposals Wednesday--including an international tax--for expanding assistance to a third of the world in such “abject poverty . . . that words simply fail to describe it.”
June 2, 1994
Technology and the Internet
Internet: Several firms are mixing human judgment and automation in efforts intended to bring users better-sifted information.
Oct. 28, 1999
Science & Medicine
New ocean health index scores world 60 out of 100
Aug. 18, 2012
Switzerland is the most comfortable nation in which to live, the United States is in fifth place and Mozambique and Angola are the least desirable of 130 countries surveyed by the Population Crisis Committee.
March 16, 1987
Canada, France, Norway and the United States have the highest quality of life, according to the U.N.
June 13, 1997
Area is at the bottom on measures of health, education, earnings.
July 17, 2008
African nations dominate the lowest ranks in an index of living conditions.
July 16, 2004
World Now
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Nov. 2, 2011