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...China it is often at the local level, where officials have the most direct impact on citizen's lives, that corruption is most common and bears the most painful consequences. While that problem is widely recognized, the collapse of schools after the Sichuan quake has turned it into a major public issue. During a State Council press conference this week, a journalist from the state-run China Daily asked why so many schools were destroyed by the tremor, while government buildings seemed comparatively intact. "It was not just schools that collapsed, but because children were buried we pay close attention...
That's a feature common to most drug ads: they leave you confused about the information. The FDA states that DTC commercials must present a "fair balance" of the benefits and side effects of a drug, but it's obvious most don't. Drug ads are, not surprisingly, meant to sell products, not scare consumers off, so they're notorious for careening quickly through the obligatory list of the medication's risks. Even Saturday Night Live has mocked this technique, with its own commercial for a fake birth control pill, Annuale - a spoof of a real drug ad for Seasonale...
Rickrolling is an increasingly common online practical joke. The object is to trick people into clicking on a benign-looking link that takes them to the video for Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up. By now millions of people have inadvertently watched the video, which came out in 1987, a more innocent time when people actually listened to generic soft-core pop on purpose--the song went...
...present in order to contribute to a solution in the future. A potential means to induce the cooperation of economically-expanding China and India is to financially compensate the two countries for losses incurred as a result of environmental conservation. The system could be sustained by a common pool comprised of money contributed by members of the developing world; the level of contribution of each country could be assessed in proportion to the nation’s level of environmental destruction and energy consumption. By supporting a continued exponential economic growth in China and India, we provide an incentive...
...shabby, meant for a transient population. "Nobody wants to spend money on a dead man," is how Robert Nave, who helps coordinate Amnesty International's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, puts it. And yet the process has become so sclerotic that execution is now just the third most common cause of death on California's death row. Prisoners there are more likely to die of natural causes or by suicide in their cell than by lethal injection. If the D.C. Madam committed suicide to evade a potentially brief jail term in comparative comfort, the same option must...