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...continues to make enforcement of the policy one of the two main yardsticks by which the performance of local bureaucrats - and hence their prospects for advancement - are judged. (The other is tax collection.) It is this pressure from above to comply with population quotas that prompts local officials to adopt measures such as forced abortion (sometimes heart-rendingly late in term), forced sterilization and the like, says Nicolas Becquelin of New York-based Human Rights in China...
...comfortable majority in parliament, secular Turks fear "it would be the beginning of the end for Turkey as we know it," says commentator Metin Munir. Their concern is that the AKP harbors a secret Islamist agenda, and that without the appropriate checks on their power, they will seek to adopt Sharia-based laws...
...Fisk III, Vittori is co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a nonprofit design center in Austin, Texas. MaxPot, as it's known, advises institutions of all kinds--from a homeless shelter in Austin to the Pentagon as it rebuilt after Sept. 11--on how to adopt environmentally sound materials and practices. But Vittori and Fisk have a special focus on health care. Two years ago, Vittori led a committee that devised the Green Guide for Health Care, a 360-page "design tool kit" that suggests steps that hospitals and other facilities can take to reduce hazardous...
...clean up what's really an unhealthy set of materials," she says. The guide, which can be downloaded at www.gghc.org is currently the basis for more than 100 pilot projects at health-care facilities across the U.S. The California health-care giant Kaiser-Permanente has just decided to adopt Green Guide principles at its new Modesto medical center...
...this week those groups set their contentions aside in a bipartisan drive to collect donations for American troops. The Support Our Troops drive has worked this week to procure donations of money and goods, which will be used to assemble care packages for U.S. troops through the Adopt a Platoon program. The effort, coordinated by the Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), and the Harvard Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, was designed to raise awareness of the sacrifice of American soldiers and their continued presence abroad. The drive ends today...