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...decision was presented by the IOC as a direct response to its pressure. "The issue were put on the table and the IOC requested that the Olympic Games hosts addressed them," a press release stated. "We trust them to keep their promise...
...Gambling was meant to bring development to this sleepy former Portuguese colony - and it has. Between 2004 and 2006, $3.3 billion of foreign direct investment flowed into the territory, and the effect on this city of just 540,000 people can be likened to filling a teacup with a fire hose. Since 2003, GDP per capita has doubled, wages have risen by two-thirds and the unemployment rate has fallen by half. The economy grew 27% in 2007 alone...
...festering anger over Gujarat serves as irresistible fodder for extremist groups who direct their message to India's increasingly disaffected Muslims. A federal report released in 2006 found that the country's 138 million Muslims are poorer than other Indians, less educated and vastly under-represented in India's largest employer, the railways, and its civil service. While many political parties pledge to defend India's Muslims against Hindu nationalism, they rarely deliver promised roads, jobs and schools. "The disaffection of Indian Muslims is not any different in its quality from the disaffection of other parts of the underclass, whether...
Though the researchers originally planned to produce disease and patient-specific stem cells using the controversial practice of therapeutic cloning, which requires both a supply of human egg cells and the destruction embryos created to produce the stem cell lines, they opted instead to use a newer technique called "direct reprogramming," which was first unveiled late last year...
...just say this - I believe in relationships," he intones during a lengthy interview in his office. A 6-ft. 1-in. (1.85 m) former Dartmouth football star with a permanently hoarse voice and a direct manner, Paulson doesn't go out of his way to be ingratiating. He does go out of his way to keep the conversation going. "I spend a lot of time on the phone," he says. "I find I assimilate information by talking to people and getting inputs from many people. I always said to my kids, 'Don't assume.' I say to the people here...