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...clean drinking water, among other issues - are addressed. If they are not, social unrest could rapidly increase. The number of "mass incidents," large demonstrations that often deteriorate into violence, hit a record in 2005, according to the most recent full-year government statistics. If ignored, those pressures could "blow China apart," Huang says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advantage Hu Jintao | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...turns out that Iraq is the scene of the largest-growing refugee population on the planet. The war in Iraq is already a contentious issue (to put it lightly), and the refugee crisis adds an additional blow. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that a little over four million persons have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the Iraq war and the continuing instability there. About 2.2 million of those refugees have left home only to resettle elsewhere in Iraq, while the other half of the refugee population has left the country entirely. Iran, Egypt...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: International Homeless | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...Reducing the number of shots at goal would help curb the influence of the referees. The last six weeks confirmed that too many of them think they're the most important guy on the field. It's one thing to maintain control, quite another to look for reasons to blow the pea out of the whistle in a sport that lacks flow at the best of times. A rugby revival depends on convincing the top whistleblowers that a Test match isn't the time to show off their grasp of every obscure law in the book. You don't halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Final Whistle | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...will prepare young undergrads for a long career of giving me money throughout their futures. Space is limited to 40 million students. Extra credit can be obtained by giving me $200,000 and some ice cream. I will offer a second year course called “How to blow people...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comics ‘Stand’ Our Questions | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

Well, this blow-off class for upperclassmen affects everyone on the yard. Nearly a quarter of the grass is unavailable for lounging at one rare time in the year when the weather permits it. The scene is also creating a logjam of tourists asking questions like: “Are all the landscapers at Harvard so well dressed and ethnically diverse?” and “Is this, like, some sort of way to get you guys at least some kind of physical activity...

Author: By Daniel Gonzalez | Title: Give Us Back Our Land! | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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