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...although there will be funding gains for education and health. The "most difficult budget any government on Nauru has ever had to deliver to Parliament," according to Adeang, it will impose big spending cuts and new fees, including a 10% customs duty on all but basic food imports. The aim is to end successive budget deficits by 2005-06 - an ambitious goal that will depend on finding new revenue sources. Secondary mining of phosphate deposits may be possible, but delayed trials have never gone ahead. To make matters worse, the government was last week told that the island's neglected...
...addition to developing the ability to target terrorist operational capabilities, governments must also take aim at the ideological wellsprings of terrorism. Regional governments and institutions can work together with the Muslim community and religious leaders to marginalize the radicals' message. Furthermore, they must seek to resolve existing and emerging regional conflicts, such as those in southern Philippines and southern Thailand. So long as such conflicts persist, with the perception that Muslims are suffering persecution, existing and new radical groups will find it easy to recruit members. For the governments of Southeast Asia, there is no agenda item so important...
...votes out of 13 million, he needed to win control of the legislature to advance his goal of establishing a national Taiwan identity. If given a majority, he pledged to change everything from the constitution to history textbooks to the names of state-owned companies, with the aim of cutting references to China and boosting Taiwan's sense of itself. That enraged Beijing, worried the U.S.?Taipei's main backer, but which also enjoys good relations with China?and seems to have backfired with the electorate. "Chen actually stimulated the pan-blue supporters to come out and vote because they...
...fighting Pioneer is Jennie Mather of Raven Biotechnologies in South San Francisco. Like Jhoti, Mather is out to fight cancer, but her approach is radically different. She postulated that what really counts in a target protein - that is, a protein that causes a disease and that a drug would aim to disable - is the protein's surface. Since a body's natural antibodies never enter a diseased cell but do their work entirely on the cell's exterior, she reasoned, drugs should work the same way. Such thinking was heresy to her former employer Genentech, which analyzes a target...
While most of the posters displayed at yesterday’s rally attempted to deal broader, unrelated blows to the administration, boasting such slogans as “Layoff Larry” and “Union Busting is Disgusting,” some took direct aim at Balloffet. One poster, for instance, called the director a “Rogue Boss” and a “Frame Artist...