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...While many of Polumbaum's interviewees have worked or traveled abroad and have thus been able to compare different media sectors for themselves, there is no presumption that Chinese journalists have it worse. Censorship is everywhere, many say, pointing out that the activities of U.S. media in Iraq can be tightly restricted by the military. Others, writing for privately owned newspapers and magazines, say that prioritizing profit is just as destructive to journalism as a censor's pen - something that journalists complain about all the time, wherever they are. Tabloid journalists will be especially familiar with the pressure to inflate...
...midpoint of Musharraf's nine-year rule, a combination of sound economic policies and foreign aid had resulted in rapid growth for Pakistan. Optimism was in the air, and Pakistani friends of mine who had lived abroad for years - artists, bankers, architects, professors - were flocking back home...
...What's more, while star Jamaican runners used to go abroad to train and study, most now opt to stay home, further endearing them to their countrymen. Bolt and Fraser, for example, eschewed lucrative U.S. college scholarship opportunities to attend the University of Technology in Kingston. Jamaican sports officials insist having the athletes on native soil has also led to a far lower incidence of the kind of doping scandals that have bedeviled Jamaican-born sprinters in the past. Bolt even made a point earlier this summer of letting it be known he'd sworn off partying to better prepare...
...economy as well. Gates is incorrect to brush over the U.S.'s economic woes so lightly, especially when creative capitalism could solve some problems like our oft-neglected poverty. Only when America proves that capitalism can cure social ills within its borders should it start looking to prove so abroad. Regina Tavani, NASHUA...
...laughing. Frustration over the sluggish pace of Iraq's oil production is rising in the country and abroad as global prices soar. (At the same time, current oil revenues account for 90% of the government's substantial budget surplus of roughly $50 billion, unspent because of an inefficient infrastructure and bureaucracy.) Much of Iraq starves for electricity and fuel as vast amounts of oil and gas sit untapped in the ground. Iraq's oil industry needs a virtual overhaul to reach a level of production that could erase chronic fuel shortages in the country and rake in windfall profits...