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...hand-to-hand combat, the American worker would lose to a band of sleepy preschoolers. Only 15% of workers exercise enough, and 40% don't attempt so much as a sit-up. More than half blame work, with 8 in 10 grousing that they would hit the treadmill--really they would--if only their employers encouraged...
There's another problem. Even the best-laid U.S. plans to combat transnational threats won't succeed if rising powers like China and India aren't part of the solution. The U.S. doesn't have the power or credibility to design and enforce rules for how other nations should handle public health, weapons proliferation, the environment or almost anything else without other big countries on board. The U.S.'s efforts to help weak states will largely depend on how well we cooperate with strong ones...
Indonesia has budgeted nearly $60 million to combat bird flu in 2007, up 9% from the year before, "but it's still not enough to control the disease," says Elly Sawitri, a Ministry of Agriculture official. The U.S., together with the MOA, is helping fund a program that has dispatched 1,300 veterinary officials across Indonesia to educate and enlist villagers in the fight against bird flu. But Indonesia still needs much more money to help farmers stop flu in their poultry. Until that happens, the risk of a pandemic will persist. And the rest of the world...
...addition to sending small numbers of non-combat personnel to Iraq, Albania voted with the U.S. in the United Nations on key provisions, such as the refusal to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and also offered to take care of prisoners released from Guantanamo who the U.S. refuses to harbor and cannot be returned to their home countries for fear of persecution. Albania is the only country in the world to provide such refuge, and, coincidentally, lawyers acting for detainees announced last week that 30 more are headed from Guantanamo to Albania in the near future. (Human...
...rationalists did themselves no favor by scuttling the “Reason and Faith” idea. Forget religion: More Americans believe in astrology than in evolution. The way to combat unreason is to have students engage the dissonance between faith and reason—not avoid it. Instead, faith seems now to have been renamed “belief” and paired with “culture,” where it will ruffle no feathers...