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...Most China analysts, though, expect these difficulties to disappear after the Olympics. "They're having a few jitters, but China isn't going to cut off its nose to spite its face," says Kent Kedl, a consultant at Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based market strategy firm. Plans are already afoot to give Hong Kong permanent residents of any nationality visa-free access to the mainland within the next few years, the kind of privilege that millions of Asians who work in the West can only dream about. "Getting my Chinese staff to the U.S. is an absolute nightmare," says Kedl...
...question is whether the polar bear is actually in enough danger to warrant official government protection. Last year, a study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) concluded that two-thirds of the world's polar bears could disappear in the next 50 years if Arctic sea ice continues to evaporate at its current rate - sea ice is essential for polar bears, serving as the platforms from which they hunt. Similar discussion is ongoing in Canada, where two-thirds of the world's estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears reside. Last week, a Canadian scientific committee ruled that...
...give Kim sufficient incentives - both economic and diplomatic - to get to a point where his regime doesn't need to proliferate to survive. A return to Bush's "strangulation" strategy only increases the incentive for Kim to behave badly, with very little hope that the Pyongyang government will disappear anytime soon...
...Salbi read about women in Bosnia's so-called rape camps--brutal military brothels--and was appalled by the slow response of the international community. "In wars, trust is lost," she says. "Betrayal leads to silence. Rape victims do not talk. Women disappear just when their families and their societies need them most--because you can't rebuild a strong economy without strong women." Raising funds through a church in the Washington area, Salbi founded Women for Women International later that year. The group has now served 153,000 women in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda...
...believes that the greatest pleasure in music is that which she can bring to her listeners.“Everyday when I go practice and perform, I realize when people come up to me afterwards that the mission as a musician is so fulfilling that all the pains really disappear during the performance,” she says. “And you realize how fortunate you are to bring music to the world and to other people’s existence...