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For example, they charged Saudi foreign fighters substantially more than Libyans, money that would have otherwise gone to al Qaeda.
But when you explore a foreign and new public transport system, you will build a cognitive map in your mind in pretty much the same way.
And how will they cope in a foreign land?
An average African country receives foreign aid to the tune of 13, 15 percent of its GDP, and that is an unprecedented transfer of financial resources from rich countries to poor countries.
Support private investment in Africa, both domestic and foreign.
By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.
The expected foreign aid: 1.9 trillion.
It's because there's somebody there called foreign aid, who contributes for it.
What percentage of that was accounted for by foreign direct investment?
Or to take an even more striking example, when the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations did a survey of Americans, asking them to guess what percentage of the federal budget went to foreign aid, the guess was 30 percent, which is slightly in excess of the actual level — ("actually about ... 1%") (Laughter) — of U.S. governmental commitments to federal aid.
The reassuring thing about this particular survey was, when it was pointed out to people how far their estimates were from the actual data, some of them — not all of them — seemed to become more willing to consider increases in foreign aid.
"Foreign aid is the most aid to poor people," is about the most home-biased thing you can find.
This cell is looking for foreign objects, bacteria, things that it can find.
And it's looking around, and when it finds something, and recognizes it being foreign, it will actually engulf it and eat it.
But there people asked me, "Why do you speak Korean with a Spanish accent?" (Laughter) And, "You must be Japanese because of your big eyes and your foreign body language."
Nothing pulls people together like a common threat or a common attack, especially an attack from a foreign enemy, unless of course that threat hits on our polarized psychology, in which case, as I said before, it can actually pull us apart.
Writing is using your imagination on paper, and I do get so scared because I travel to so many schools now and that seems like such a foreign concept to kids, that writing would be using your imagination on paper, if they're allowed to even write now within the school hours.
Foreign policy, you can figure that out by watching, I don't know, Rachel Maddow or somebody, but — (Laughter) — I want to talk about young people and structure, young people and structure.
But I'm talking about him because when he was four months old, my foreign editor forced me to go back to Baghdad where I had been reporting all throughout the Saddam regime and during the fall of Baghdad and afterwards, and I remember getting on the plane in tears, crying to be separated from my son, and while I was there, a quite famous Iraqi politician who was a friend of mine said to me, "What are you doing here?
Some North Koreans in China seek asylum in foreign embassies.
According to a National Geographic survey I just saw, somewhere along the lines of 80 percent of the people who vote in a U.S. presidential election about issues like foreign policy cannot find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map.
If you can't do that first step, are you really going to look up the other thousand facts you're going to need to know to master your knowledge of U.S. foreign policy?
So if you know a foreign language, it's also fun to read your favorite books in two languages.
"Manal al-Sharif breaks down and confesses: 'Foreign forces incited me.'" (Laughter) And it goes on, even trial and flogging me in public.
It's a journey into the foreign territory of somebody else's life, a journey, an exploration that can take you places you never dreamed of going and still can't quite believe you've been, especially if, like me, you're an agnostic Jew and the life you've been exploring is that of Muhammad.
The range of positions is wide, from running health care in a village to foreign investment in a city district to manager in a company.
In 1949, when the Party took power, China was mired in civil wars, dismembered by foreign aggression, average life expectancy at that time, 41 years old.
And I've always felt that the beauty of being surrounded by the foreign is that it slaps you awake.
We've noticed, in a trend among young Americans, that they read less history and less literature and less material about foreign lands, and they're essentially ahistorical.
What a gift it was to the eager, young foreign correspondent that I was then.
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