Word: appearences
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...long held up as the paragon of a mature Asian democracy, yet which continues to serve up political leaders distinguishable only by subtleties of grey in their ideological coloration. Yasuo Fukuda, the leading candidate to replace Shinzo Abe as Japan's next PM, and Fukuda's rival, Taro Aso, appear to be trying to differentiate themselves as the Sept. 23 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) election approaches. Aso is pegged as a tough-talking hawk, Fukuda a diplomatic dove. But both are products of a political system dominated not by people with the right ideas, but by people with the right...
...terror. Abe, like his grandfather, was intent on strengthening Japan's military ties with the U.S. But the Japanese public had already deserted Abe, not because of his foreign policy but over his inability to address fundamental economic issues. Harping on a faraway military operation only made Abe appear more out of touch...
...hurt by such accusations. (According to the firm's website, its founder, George W. Merck, once said: "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.") So, in 2000, Merck and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put $50 million each into setting up the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) to support Botswana's efforts to fight the disease, with Merck also committing to supplying ACHAP with free drugs. The program ran for four years...
...breathtaking destruction and reconstruction. "I went away for three months, and when I came back, I couldn't even recognize a neighborhood near my home. I hardly knew it was my city," says film director Xu Jinglei, 33, born and bred in Beijing. Astonishing buildings are starting to appear: the iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium; Rem Koolhaas' cantilevered towers for broadcaster CCTV; the National Theater, a doorless silver dome perched on the corner of Tiananmen Square like a newly landed UFO. Numberless dilapidated eyesores thrown up by central planners in the 1950s and '60s have been swept away...
...fear it as much we do. Only you can prevent it.'" The French government's alarm directed not towards Tehran alone, but also towards Russia and China, whose support for tougher sanctions is viewed as vital in pressing Iran to renounce its program. But the message doesn't appear to have changed minds in Moscow, where Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov reiterated his government's position that a "bombing of Iran would be a bad move that would end with catastrophic consequences...