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...government troops have escalated over the last week, resulting in at least 16 deaths, according to Chinese government statistics cited by the Associated Press. Tibet’s self-declared government-in-exile claims as many as 80 demonstrators have been killed. China has widely mobilized troops to curb the violence. The Chinese asked protesters to turn themselves in by last night, but as the deadline passed, police officers continued to patrol Lhasa, according to the Associated Press. “The basic cause of the conflict is the difference between the promise of autonomy and the reality...
...Arizona, a war is being waged on affordable education. According to Proposition 300, a piece of legislation passed in November 2006, the state is prohibited from subsidizing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. While this may seem at first glance to be a reasonable curb in the fight against illegal immigration, the reality is something different. The people primarily affected by this measure are the children of illegal immigrants—many of whom have been living in the United States since before they can remember. Now these young adults, great majorities of whom are culturally American, are finding themselves...
Perhaps what is worst of all about Proposition 300 is that it is just one of a slew of measures like it, in which education policy is being used as a bar on societal progress and equality. American educators must work hard to curb this dangerous co-opting before the entire system is in trouble...
...extreme response probably says more about Hong Kong's medical history than its current diagnosis. Five years ago, the SARS epidemic crippled the city, killing nearly 300 people and grinding public life to an eerie halt. At the time, the government came under fire for not doing enough to curb the spread of the disease, leading to the eventual resignation of the acting health chief Yeoh Eng-kiong. "This is not as bad as SARS," says Lam Tin Lung, an ambulance driver who worked through that health crisis. "But we take more caution now. We've learned to be more...
...meantime, health officials hope that closing schools will help curb the high infection rate. On Friday morning, a train that would normally be shuttling office workers is instead abuzz with families. Mega-strollers clog the aisles. A mom wipes the nose of her round little boy, while a young girl in pigtails and a flu mask collapses on her father's shoulder, laughing. This is, after all, a day off, and this particular train is headed to Hong Kong Disneyland. It's not a bad way to spend a sick...