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...health-care costs hobbling profits, more employers are saying to employees, Get healthy--or else. After all, insurance premiums and absenteeism by sick workers set businesses back $15 billion a year, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And yet 70% of health-care costs stem from preventable chronic diseases. Take diabetes, which costs nearly $92 billion a year: 91% of cases could be avoided by better eating. Smoking-related illnesses rack up an additional $75 billion a year...
...India's current food-distribution system is a legacy of the 1940s and '50s, when chronic food shortages led the government to crack down on hoarding of produce by unscrupulous cartels. In 1966 the government introduced a new law that banned farmers from dealing directly with retailers and forced them to sell through licensed middlemen, called mandis. The law, which also aimed to give farmers a fair and consistent price, "was initially done with a good purpose," says Arpita Mukherjee, a senior fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank...
...that TRT had illegally bankrolled smaller parties in order to make the April 2006 elections appear legitimate. (Separate charges against the main opposition Democrat Party were dismissed, strengthening upcoming electoral hopes for the country's oldest political party.) "This is very important as a step in curing Thailand's chronic political illness: electoral fraud," says Sunai Phasuk, the Thai representative for Human Rights Watch. "But it doesn't mean it's the end of Thailand's political crisis...
...circulated a declaration of grievances remonstrating against the cold shoulder the administration has turned to students recently. While we take issue with the petulant and self-righteous tone with which the declaration was written, we wholeheartedly sympathize with many of its complaints. The Harvard administration’s chronic deafness to student voices has alarmingly limited undergraduate input into the conduct and affairs of our University. As students, we do not demand that our opinions be put into immediate effect, but that our counsel be heard and given some degree of credence. We do not think this too much...
...Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets middling students, those "on the edge of being successful," explains Euel Bunton, principal of Phillips. While results of the program aren't yet in, attendance of AVID students is 90% - a promising sign in a school where chronic truancy has been a problem...