African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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10 p., At the G20, world leaders agreed on the need of a concerted and coordinated response to the financial crisis, and at the same time committed to lay the foundations to move beyond the crisis to a sustainable recovery. However, Latin America and the Caribbean still lack adequate and efficient institutional mechanisms and instruments to tackle long-term common development challenges at the regional level. The Annual Meeting of the Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean provides an opportunity to fill this gap.
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29121
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 1 page., Reviews a column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times about pigs and people as repositories for multiply-resistant staphylococcus aureus. Title: "Our pigs, our food, our health."
