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...recourse, use only accredited facilities, and inform patients of "the potential risks of combining surgical procedures with long flights and vacation activities," among other recommendations. Joint Commission International, a non-profit that certifies the safety and record of hospitals, has accredited some 200 foreign medical facilities, many in Spain, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates...
...unique nature of his discoveries, he’s also raising quite a few eyebrows in the world of academia. The Pirahã are a small tribe of Amazonian indigenous people who dwell on the banks of the Maici River, a tributary of the Madeira River in Northwest Brazil. Though they have some contact with the outside world through traders on the river, they speak a very inaccessible, tonal language, and apparently haven’t changed much since the first European explorers encountered them well over two centuries ago. They live on a day-by-day basis, catching only...
...counted among his accomplishments inaugurating an International Manga Award that honors foreign artists.) Aso's own internationalism is rooted in personal experience, a relative rarity among Japanese politicians. In addition to studying at Stanford University and the London School of Economics, he spent time in Sierra Leone and Brazil, where he ran family mining businesses. A vocal advocate of Japan's foreign-aid efforts, Aso calls assistance for developing countries "a respectable means to export Japanese culture [and] an important means to disseminate Japanese values...
...Nissan's hottest markets now? China. We think China is going to be very resilient. Obviously we are not going to have the 25% growth that we had for the last years, but 6 or 7% growth, at least. We think South America is going to come back. Brazil is suffering now, but it has long-term potential. Russia, too. I come back to fundamentals. The number of cars per inhabitants in these countries is very, very low. Even if you are going to have a disruption in the rate of growth, there is fundamental demand, which is very strong...
...change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy. Big developing nations like China, India and Brazil, which will be responsible for the majority of future carbon emissions, have meanwhile remained reluctant to do much about climate change as long as the U.S. stays on the sideline. "Obama signaled to the world that there is a true recognition that the global challenge of climate change requires...