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Over soy lattes and buttery-soft muffins, I sat down in a coffee shop a few weeks ago with one of Washington's savviest Asia activists. Through endless networking and tireless advocacy, she has helped keep Burma's human-rights abuses on Washington's radar, even though the country has little strategic significance to the U.S. During the George W. Bush Administration, she exuded confidence. Now she's anxious. Barack Obama's government has taken a close interest in Burma, but not the sort she wants. On a trip to Asia in February, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told...
...runaway province and has blocked the democratic Taipei government from receiving diplomatic recognition or participating in many international forums. Both sides armed the Taiwan Strait to the teeth, turning it into one of Asia's most dangerous military flash points. Contact between them has been grossly restricted. A year ago, Taiwan residents couldn't take a scheduled flight or mail a letter directly to the mainland, and Taiwan-made goods had to be trans-shipped through Hong Kong and Japan...
...then discovered that the company may have sold his property twice. "I thought Dubai looked like the safest place to invest in the Middle East," he says. "They appeared to have laws that would protect investors." But Dubai's real estate regulatory body was set up just two years ago. And Dubai's legal system gives no right to bring class-action suits, leaving Knight and his group drawing names out of a hat to see which of them gets to go first...
...however, catch our own small break three years ago. Through the Westside Regional Center, my parents found out about Diverse Journeys, an assisted-living program willing to place Noah in a rented house in Los Angeles closer to my parents' home and therefore an easier commute for their weekly visits. Noah lives in a two-bedroom house with a roommate, a "normal" person, whose rent is partly subsidized in exchange for the attention she must pay to Noah when she is home. A rotating series of caregivers take Noah to the park or for walks or to fast-food restaurants...
...Squeeze The weak economy and surging health-care costs are taking a toll on Medicare and Social Security. A troubling government report projects that hospital funding for Medicare, which provides health care for 45 million Americans, will run dry by 2017--two years sooner than predicted just a year ago. Social Security's trust fund will go broke in 2037, four years ahead of schedule. Analysts warn that the picture may grow bleaker as mounting unemployment slashes tax revenues that fund the entitlements, which already eat up a third of federal spending...