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...creating what it calls a "discipline-flourishing democracy," after it ignored the results of the last elections back in 1990. International human-rights groups, however, decry the process as little more than a choreographed exercise designed to legitimize the junta and stamp out any threats to its power. In April, the Burmese government informed the cease-fire groups that as part of the electoral run-up they would have to refashion their armies as part of a centrally controlled border guard force, the first step in what many fear will be the death knell to ethnic autonomy. The deadline...
...Crain, co-owner and vice president at Navitas Naturals, says the presence of Truvia and PureVia in the marketplace helped boost sales of his Organic Green Stevia, which was launched in April. "As a little company, we've benefited from their consumer education," he says. How sweet...
After a delay that caused the first application period to occur in April 2009 rather than 2008, the program has resumed its schedule to distribute $100,000 each year to nonprofit organizations until 2012, as part of the $25 million in benefits that Harvard agreed to give the Allston community in order to proceed with construction of its Allston Science Complex...
...article in the March-April issue of Foreign Affairs by Robert Kaplan, a prominent American writer and strategic thinker, suggested that the U.S., far and away still the world's preeminent military power, could be the chief "balancer" and "honest broker" in the Indian Ocean. But that idea has been received icily in Asia, with many governments seeing the U.S. as a nation in decline, marooned in costly adventures abroad and led by an Obama Administration that is less willing to confront the aggressive posturing of a rising giant like China. It would be better, says Bhaskar, for India...
...Italy and elsewhere, that leaves space for populists like Bossi to harvest new supporters by leading the charge for a fast pullout. These days Berlusconi is more vulnerable to recalcitrant allies in the face of near daily blowback from a private-life scandal that began in April when his estranged wife accused him of "frequenting underage females...