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Laws Matter, But Typically Changing The Law By Itself Accomplishes Little.

If One Is Talking To A Finance Minister Of A Poor Country, Moral Arguments Tend Not To Get Very Far. But If You Can Argue That Their Country Is Going To Grow 2 Percent Faster Per Year If They Can Just Harness The Power Of The Female Half Of The Population More Effectively, That Is An Argument They Consider.

We All Might Ask Ourselves Why We Tune In To These More Trivial Matters And Tune Out When It Comes To Darfur

So Kim Kardashian Is Getting A Divorce, 72 Days After A Wedding That Is Variously Reported To Have Cost $10 Million Or More. Just To Put That In Perspective, That Sum Could Have Built 200 Schools In Poor Countries Around The World For Kids Who Desperately Want An Education. Then Kardashian Could Have Helped Transform The World, Not Just Entertain It. And The Schools Would Have Lasted Incomparably Longer Than Her Marriage.

If The U.s. Wants To Help People In Tsunami-hit Countries Like Sri Lanka And Indonesia - Not To Mention Other Poor Countries In Africa - There's One Step That Would Cost Us Nothing And Would Save Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives. It Would Be To Allow Ddt In Malaria-ravaged Countries.