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Asthma and other respiratory ailments are already on the rise in much of the world. The World Health Organization estimates that 300 million people globally have asthma, with 250,000 dying from the disease each year. That rate is up considerably over the past few decades, and scientists say a...
Indonesia is heading in the right direction, says the OECD's de Mello. "But what they need to understand is that the world is moving faster." Real progress can come only if there is a national consensus to make economic development a priority. And in the country's fractious political...
There is stability in Indonesia - and unlike in China or Vietnam, it isn't a side benefit of authoritarianism. Although S.B.Y. was reared in a brass-knuckles military environment, he has proven to be a capable civil administrator who's willing to delegate responsibility to technocrats within his administration. Meanwhile...
The interplay among teens, the media and sex is a complicated one. As Ireland shrewdly observes, the way a girl sees herself is more powerful than what she sees in magazines. But here's the rub: what she sees in the media does affect that self-image, especially in terms...
Many consumers may not have heard the term greenwashing, but they've surely experienced it--misleading marketing about the environmental benefits of a product. Greenwashing isn't new--ever since the environment emerged as an issue in the early 1970s, there have been advertising firms trying to convince consumers that buying Brand X is the only way to save the earth. But as going green has become big business--sales of organic products alone went from $10 billion in 2003 to more than $20 billion in 2007--companies appear eager to associate themselves with the environment, deservedly...