Saturday

DEVELOPMENT: Family Planning Gets Mere Sliver of Aid Pie

DEVELOPMENT: Family Planning Gets Mere Sliver of Aid Pie: "funding for family planning as a percentage of all population assistance has dropped considerably, from 55 percent in 1995 to 7.0 percent in 2005."

POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Stuck!

POLITICS-US/IRAQ: Stuck!: "That neither Petraeus, now commander of all U.S. forces in Iraq, nor his civilian counterpart, Washington's ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, was able to offer even the slightest clue as to 'how this ends' in Congressional testimony this week added yet one more layer of irony to a war which has systematically defied every prediction of its architects."