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...Uighurs across Xinjiang complain about job discrimination and the influx of Han migrants. But in Urumqi, where they are outnumbered 5-to-1 by Han Chinese, their most immediate concern is safety. Thousands of paramilitary troops are preserving an unsteady peace, but for some that is not enough. "I'm afraid of people fighting each other," says a 22-year-old Uighur college student. He longs to go to another city in Xinjiang where the Uighur population is larger. "I want to go to Kashgar, Khotan or Aksu where it is safe. Right now a lot of people are leaving...
...memorial. These Soviet-era monuments were designed to inculcate belief in (and fear of) the regime. Like his Soviet predecessors, Putin has shown a distaste for acknowledging weakness or tragedy. "In the Russian mentality," says Anna Kireeva of the environmental group Bellona, which investigated the Kursk sinking out of concern that nuclear waste might seep from the submarine, "there is a joke: Rule 1 is the boss is always right. Rule 2 is, if the boss is wrong, see Rule...
...presidential elections yesterday. His single-round slam dunk over his opponents paves the way for Indonesia to take a greater role on the world stage, though analysts also warn the retired general not to let up on several important fights at home. Corruption fighters in Indonesia have repeatedly voiced concern that the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, arguably the most feared agency in the country, was being weakened by forces in and outside the government. "We want to see the President stand up for the KPK," states Anies Baswedan, a political scientist and rector of Paramadina University in Jakarta...
...it’s no secret that Facebook’s real motive, and for many months its overriding concern, is keeping up with Twitter. Although Facebook has 200 million users to Twitter’s 25 million (that doesn’t include all the new registrations that undoubtedly resulted in June following the Iranian elections), the consensus is that the future of social networking lies in microblogging: short up-to-the-second messages broadcast to your friends and followers. The key part of this equation—and what equipped Twitter to be such a powerful means...
...largest concern among stem-cell experts involved the status of the few dozen stem-cell lines that had qualified for federal funding, even under Bush's more restrictive policy. Stem-cell lines derived from those embryos are currently seeding many different studies, but because the embryos were not donated under the same stringent informed-consent procedures that will be required starting Tuesday, it's possible they may no longer be eligible for federal financing...