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...Europe can draw on deeper reserves of money and talent. U.S. states such as California and Massachusetts are spending billions of dollars on stem-cell research, hoping to lay the groundwork for development of new medical industries. In contrast, Yamanaka's lab at Kyoto is relatively basic, and the Japanese government has only recently begun channeling real funding into the field. "There is a lack of understanding about how important this research is among government people, and Japanese in general," he says...
...reality of Iraq today comes into focus. The "surge" - the Bush Administration?s term for the security crackdown in and around Baghdad - is based on the assumption that Iraqi security forces are competent to do basic jobs such as guarding important structures. That is meant to free Americans for high-risk tasks, such as disposing of roadside bombs. But even before Samarra, there was a growing body of evidence that Iraqis aren't ready or willing to perform their appointed tasks. What does that imply for the U.S. military operation and when it might end? Or for the development...
Obviously, 9/11--when the U.S. was attacked from Afghanistan, a terrorist-infested basket case--changed things. But while the Bush Administration turned its attention to the Middle East, it kept the same basic prism seeing terrorism as the product of (allegedly) rising, threatening powers like Iraq and Iran...
...Olympic games is both a symbolic and practical opportunity to ensure that these global sporting events live up to the ideals enshrined in the Olympic charter and that people who enjoy the games can also know that the souvenirs and garments they wear are produced in factories where basic human dignity and labor rights are respected...
...about substance? Because it is, nominally, what elections are all about. The candidates owe us answers, whether they want to give them or not. At the very least, you can learn a lot from the character of their evasions-how their minds work, how much they know, what their basic principles are. Occasionally, they might even say something courageous. And very occasionally, there comes an election where the ability to be courageous, to tell the public things it may not want to hear, is the most important quality we need in a leader. I suspect 2008 will be that sort...