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The Foreign Service Journal, April 2012

Cover	1
Contents	5
Focus on FS Family Member Employment	18
FS Spousal Employment: Slow but Steady Progress	18
Patience: The Key to Successful EFM Employment	26
Local Employment in Mozambique and Brazil	29
HOC Rocks!	31
My So-Called Career	35
Feature	37
Seven Billion and Growing	37
FS Fiction	43
The Decision	43
AFSA News	49
Discrepancies in Benefits, Entry-Level Hiring Top USAID FSOs’ Concerns	49
News Briefs	50
V.P State—Defining, Not Defending, Our Future	51
V.P. USAID—Reinventing the Annual Evaluation Form Wheel	52
V.P. FAS—Linking U.S. Agriculture to the World	53
Presenting American Culture to the World	54
AFSA Meets George Shultz and Northern California Retirees	57
Helping Those Who Help Animals	57
More Europe Is the Answer	58
I Work for Uncle Sam, and I'm Proud of It	59
AFSA Announces 2011 Sinclaire Award Winners	59
The University of (fill in the blank)	60
This Month in Diplomatic History: Thomas Jefferson	61
Classifieds	62
Departments	7
President’s Views—Professionalism versus Patronage & Elitism	7
Speaking Out—Purchasing Parity: USAID's EFM Language Training Policy	14
Letter From the Editor	17
Reflections—An Independent Woman in Taipei	74
Letters	8
Cybernotes	10
Marketplace	11
Books	65
Index to Advertisers	72

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