Word: developable
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...forgive me if I don't join the new fad. Nations need time to develop institutions that guarantee liberty and prosperity. It took France around 90 years to go from violent revolution to a settled bourgeois democracy. All countries make mistakes, and wise ones will seek help and protection from outside their borders. But let the help they seek be of their own volition, let the mistakes they make be of their own making - and let imperialism stay where it should have been left, as a subject of enjoyable books and speeches...
This kind of commercial piracy has devastated the Asian entertainment industry. In China, where piracy rates for movies, music and software are all more than 90%, record companies trying to develop local talent have bled money for years. Every time they try to build up a star, the pirates siphon off the profits. "There's no point in spending money to drive demand," says Samuel Chou, Warner Music's CEO for China and Taiwan, "because what you drive all goes to piracy...
...Project has collected the signatures needed for a plebiscite - permitted under Castro's constitution - on free speech, multiparty elections and expanded private enterprise. Castro refuses to recognize the project, but the grass-roots movement it generated probably has him choking on his rum mojitos. Despite Castro's push to develop tourism, Cuba's economy is a shambles, and a hoped-for easing of the U.S. embargo has been quashed by George W. Bush. The last thing Castro can afford now is a Solidarity-style movement. So in March, with the aid of agents who had infiltrated the dissident cells...
...21st century's darker technologies, as potentially disruptive and dangerous as nuclear weapons. Nanotechnology is just one of a suite of advances - including biotechnology, genetics and robotics - about which some ethicists, politicians, consumer watchdogs and even a few scientists are concerned. They fear that these developments may have spin-offs so dangerous that, when the genie is out of the bottle, the outcome may be impossible to control. The long-term effects of genetically modified food, gene therapy and even the radiation from mobile phones are just not known, critics argue, so why are we rushing to develop these potentially...
...broad case definition so as not to miss cases, putting in strict protections in hospitals to protect first line medical staff and patients, isolating people suspected of having SARS so that transmission of infection is limited, and quarantining people who have been in contact with known cases who may develop the disease and honest and timely reporting. The key is to take action at the earliest possible stage, before the numbers get high. Vietnam did that, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has just lifted its travel alert; China did not, and there are thousands of probable cases...