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...considered more liberal on trade than almost any country in the world, may be pushed in the direction of restricting commerce with other nations if the other nations act first. Obama faces the problem of having a Congress which will generally support him. But, when a Representative's district is losing jobs because of the dumping of Japanese steel or Swiss watches, the tenor of the conversation will change. Trade won't work out the way the G-20 summit says it will. National interests to protect local industries are too strong...
...large, longitudinal study, conducted in nearly 500 villages in the rural Osmanabad district of central India, analyzed the effectiveness of three methods of screening, including the standard pap smear and the newer test for human papillomavirus, or HPV, whose sexually transmitted high-risk strains are known to cause cervical cancer. (Read "Cancer and Insurance: Who Do You Call...
...more than 20 employees. In Beijing, state-owned enterprises have been ordered not to lay off any of their employees this year. The government is also looking to make positive examples of private businesses that keep on staff. That's why Liu Jingyu, a local entrepreneur in a suburban district of Beijing called Daxing, was recently handed the keys to an expensive Audi A8L; he'd created more than 1,600 jobs at his company, most of them for local Daxing citizens. Jingyu is promising not to cut either jobs or salaries, to take on more employees...
Iqbal Hussein feels like a marked man. An itinerant laborer from rural Khulna district in Bangladesh, he now scraps for odd jobs in a market town 19 miles (30 km) south of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. Last year, he agreed to pay a recruitment agency $2,400 to win a position on the production line of an auto parts manufacturer. But in the wake of the financial crisis, that job is gone, and Hussein, like hundreds of thousands of migrant workers around the world, is stranded far from home, saddled with debts that will take years to repay...
...advocacy goals would be better served if there were two advocacy committees. “One thing to consider is the three committees inevitably have a huge amount of overlap,” she said. The UC discussed the merits of increasing its membership to three people per district during the meeting. The discussion was only the beginning of the UC’s effort to reevaluate it’s structure in light of the Dowling Report. Discussions will take place in FiCom and SAC committee meetings this week and will continue throughout the semester. UC parliamentarian Eric...