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Titanic Survivors Study: A Closer Look at Self-Preservation
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyYou're on a sinking ship and you have just 10 minutes to make a decision: Do you save yourself, or do you help the other passengers to safety? Now, imagine the same scenario, except you have two hours longer to make your decision. Do you make the same choice? Maybe not, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. Researchers from the University of Zurich, the Center for Research in Economics, and Queensland University compared the survivor profiles of passengers from two famous shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, to see how they ...
US Aid Recipients Among Most Corrupt Governments
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- A ranking of the world's most corrupt countries released Tuesday put a harsh spotlight on many of the top recipients of U.S. aid. Out of the top 10 foreign aid recipients in 2008, six countries -- Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Kenya and Nigeria -- were ranked in the bottom half of the 180 countries reviewed. And despite getting U.S. funds, the ranking had worsened from last year to this for six of the 10 -- Afghanistan, Jordan, Pakistan, South Africa, Colombia and Nigeria. Gerald Hyman, president of the Hills Program on Governance at the Center for Strategic and ...
The G8 Summit Meltdown, and Why Silvio Berlusconi Needs a Holiday
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyPoor Italy. First, there were the sex scandals. Now, it looks as if the upcoming G8 summit may well crash and burn. Silvio Berlusconi just can't catch a break. ...
Foreign Aid at Risk In Budget Battle
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Millennium Challenge Corporation, a little known but well regarded Federal agency charged with overseeing development projects in fledgling democracies from South America to Africa and beyond, is in danger of seeing its budget slashed in half in the current budget battle between Congress and the White House. Proposed as a signature initiative of the Bush Administration and enacted by Congress in 2004 with bipartisan support, the MCC has been hailed by foreign aid specialists as a novel approach to development in the third world. Now, however, the agency's fiscal year 2008 funding may ...
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