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...Child Left Behind program. The ceiling has been raised now, but not for America’s youth. If there is someone who needs Oprah’s Debt Diet, it is the men and women running our country. That—the $28,000 of per capita debt our federal state has saddled its children with—is something we should all remember during the election campaigns coming up later this year and beyond...
...country, anyway. But other nations, realizing how successful the U.S. model of scientific research has been, have begun to copy it in earnest. Finland decided back in the 1970s to focus on electronics and a handful of other high-tech industries, and now has the most research scientists per capita in the world. South Korea decided to concentrate on reproductive technology, and although the research of superstar Hwang Woo Suk has been exposed as mostly fraudulent, the country has plenty of other world-class experts in cloning and stem-cell research...
...What happens now? Most likely, nothing. With a per-capita gdp of just $478, East Timor remains one of the world's poorest nations, and wants to keep friendly ties with Indonesia, its largest trading partner. East Timor President Xanana Gusm?o has rejected CAVR's call for reparations and a war-crimes tribunal, saying he wants South African-style truth and reconciliation rather than punishment. "It's not so important to look at the figures [in the study]," he said. "It is important to look at the lessons...
...OPEC did in November 1973, when they placed the U.S. and Holland under oil embargo for siding with Israel. Prices skyrocketed; Saudi Arabia enjoyed a couple of years of fat profits. Then, the U.S. and other Western countries improved their economies, and adjusted to new prices, while per capita income in Saudi Arabia has sharply dropped since. A country that is prepared to wield energy weapons must know that it is going to lose in the long run. History gives an unequivocal answer to where Russia will slide, should it embark on this road...
...built blocks. Singapore's cultural life - a phrase that was once oxymoronic - is now at least as vibrant as those of other cities in Southeast Asia, with a sparkling new performing-arts center and some of the best restaurants in the world. After decades of strong economic growth, per-capita income last year was $24,220, about the same as Italy. As they trip around Asia, popping off to Bali or Perth for the weekend while dressed in Prada and Gucci, wealthier Singaporeans could be forgiven for pitying their former European masters, whose day in the sun - they will sometimes...