WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits.
Missionaries and the Birth of International Development
The paper examines how Protestant missionaries influenced American attitudes toward foreign aid and international development, particularly between 1948 and 1961, highlighting their role in shaping foreign policy and public support.