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...gurr). Uyghurs are a minority in Western China who, like the Tibetans, are engaged in a struggle against the Chinese government for increased freedoms. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he participated in the Scholars at Risk program at Harvard and is now a language teacher for the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...
...lives of 250 animals - but nothing so far suggests that does much to improve captive elephants' health or longevity. In Kenya, on the other hand, the wildlife service has an annual budget of just $20 million to look after tens of thousands of elephants. What's more, while Asian elephants remain in jeopardy - with only about 60,000 of them left - cost-effective wildlife-protection programs have allowed the African elephant population to rebound to a robust 500,000. "African elephants are a conservation success story," says Mason. That's true enough of much of the free population...
...also millions of cynical Thai fans who would much rather watch English Premier League football than their often amateurish homegrown variety. Though Reid has a four-year contract, his honeymoon period will be much shorter. "People want the Thai team to upgrade itself, and not just into an Asian powerhouse," says Tor Chittinand, soccer correspondent for the Bangkok Post. "We're aiming for the World...
...Boston Are U.S. Kids Catching Up? The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study revealed that while math and science scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students in the U.S. now beat the world average, their Asian counterparts continue to do better. The exams are administered every four years to assess global differences...
...depression now, and despite everything, I don't think we're heading into one (although I'm not as sure of that as I'd like to be)." In this updated and revised edition of his prescient 1999 book, the author shows how the Asian and Latin American financial crises of the 1990s foreshadowed the current situation and argues that the rise of unregulated financial institutions--or "shadow banks"--since then has been the real problem. The solution: Policymakers around the world need to "get credit flowing again and prop up spending." Until that happens, though, it's time...