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Levitt will be remembered by the world as the man who coined the word “globalization,” but for his former students, his colleagues, and his loved ones, he was above all a man who could bestow down-to-earth advice as well as ground-breaking theory...
...Kenya In Nairobi, Hu helped CNOOC secure oil-exploration rights to more than 115,000 sq km of the Indian Ocean. China will bestow $7.5 million in aid and grants for malaria medicine, rice and a sports stadium...
...Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has a habit of treading where other elected officials are loath to go. First, he took on same-sex marriage. Now Newsom is angling again to bestow city residents with rights that Americans living elsewhere don't have. San Franciscans, he announced this week, are poised to become the first recipients of universal health care. This means uninsured city dwellers will gain access to basic medical services they otherwise couldn't afford. While not free, the care will come at sharply reduced costs. Enrollment fees will range from $3 to $201, depending on participants' incomes. Most...
...Europe, thermal therapies have an ancient tradition," says Maria Carla Ottaiano of the Lazio Regional Health Council. Nevertheless, Italy's Ministry of Health proposes to verify scientifically the effectiveness of thermal treatments. Testing like that might help ease the antagonism between conventional and alternative practitioners. Done properly, it would bestow legitimacy on effective treatments, while weeding out bogus therapies - and the quacks who promote them. A key area is in the licensing and regulation of practitioners, vital to quality control. Dr. Sara Eames, a homeopath at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, says the lack of regulation undermines confidence...
...Watergate had inoculated the nation against that, once and for all. And however far to the right the U.S. shifted, after Vietnam we knew we’d finally buried the arrogance of power. Never again would Americans invade a nation halfway around the world in order to bestow democracy at gunpoint. Right...