1. Although the system is far from perfect, it is certainly more transparent than it was when foreign aid routinely helped ruthless dictators stay in power.

2. But beginning in the 1990s, foreign aid had begun to slowly improve.

3. Today, the projects of organizations like the World Bank are meticulously inspected by watchdog groups.

4. Scrutiny by the news media shamed many developed countries into curbing their bad practices.

^{1. In the Northern Hemisphere the jet stream is sought by eastbound aircraft, in order to gain speed and save fuel, and avoided by westbound aircraft.}

^{2. Jet stream, narrow, swift currents or tubes of air found at heights ranging from 7 to 8 mi (11.3-12.9 km) above the surface of the earth.}

^{3. Instead of moving along a straight line, the jet stream flows in a wavelike fashion; the waves propagate eastward (in the Northern Hemisphere) at speeds considerably slower than the wind speed itself.}

^{4. They are caused by great temperature differences between adjacent air masses.}

^{5. Since the progress of an airplane is aided or impeded depending on whether tail winds or head winds are encountered,}

1. This is somewhat surprising given the London Underground's historic difficultly in grasping the concept of punctuality.

2. This is because it chops the world up equally by longitude, without regard the reality of either political divisions or the changing seasons.

3. But this map has always fascinated me, and still does, even though it now seems very primitive.

4. For as long as I can remember, there has been a map in the ticket hall of Piccadilly Circus tube station supposedly showing night and day across the time zones of the world.

1. They're not all necessarily good guys, either, although with the hurricanes wreaking wholesale destruction upon the world's coastal areas, ethical categories tend to become irrelevant.

2. This usually irritates me, but I didn't mind it here, and their interactions are well-handled and informative, although occasionally in moving them about the author's manipulations are a bit blatant.

3. Unlike Barnes' previous books, Mother of Storms has a fairly large cast of viewpoint characters.

4. But even the Evil American Corporate Magnate is a pretty likable guy.

1. After finishing first in his pilot training class, Lindbergh took his first job as the chief pilot of an airmail route operated by Robertson Aircraft Co. of Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri.

2. After a crash, he even salvaged bags of mail from his burning aircraft and immediately phoned Alexander Varney, Peoria's airport manager, to advise him to send a truck.

3. He flew the mail in a de Havilland DH-4 biplane to Springfield, Illinois, Peoria and Chicago.

4. During his tenure on the mail route, he was renowned for delivering the mail under any circumstances.

1. SEPAHUA, a ramshackle town on the edge of Peru's Amazon jungle, nestles in a pocket on the map where a river of the same name flows into the Urubamba.

2. Instead, it auctioned 40-year concessions to areas ruled off on a map, with the right to log 5% of the area each year. The aim was to encourage strict management plans and sustainable extraction.

3. In 2001 the government, egged on by WWF, a green group, tried to regulate logging in the relatively small part of the Peruvian Amazon where this is allowed.

4. That pocket denotes a tiny patch of legally loggable land sandwiched between four natural reserves, all rich in mahogany and accessible from the town.

5. It abolished the previous system of annual contracts.

1. In contrast, consumers are shown to be likely to see few benefits in DRM.

2. Due to its ability to solve all main problems associated with digital goods, Digital Rights Management is the favorite option used by companies to tackle privacy.

3. The aim of this article is to discuss the consequences of DRM for consumers, firms, and society.

4. The article concludes with some public policy recommendations.

5. The rationales of DRM are discussed and the expected benefits for firms are presented.

1. Reading also is special because, unlike language, most children have to be taught to read, write, and spell.

2. So reading is a very special ability that we have.

3. Humans appear to be the only species that is able to translate their communication into another medium, and in this case, the medium provides a semi-durable record of the elements of the communication.

4. So, though we may be predisposed to being able to read and usually have the abilities necessary to master reading, it is something that most of us only accomplish through the direct help of others.

1. And with the second largest tidal range in the world, British marine energy could play an important role in this shift.

2. In 2013, plans to construct a £34bn barrage across the Severn estuary were rejected after concerns were raised about its effect on local ecosystems.

3. The government has promised to help counter this global trend by reducing UK carbon emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050.

4. But harnessing the power of the tides is not without consequence.