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When Dani was 14, I must already have had an inkling that he was one of those rare people who transcend age and place - and ethnicity and religion, too. I couldn't know to what extent: a year after the war, Dani converted from Islam to Protestantism after reading a New Testament given to him by American missionaries. "It matched with my philosophy," he says. "Jesus' message is love, to turn the other cheek." Dani keeps his faith close to his chest. "I don't think God wants to be as popular as he is right now," he says...
...extent of physical interaction between police and youths is a significant variable, because it creates passion and outrage among kids elsewhere who have trouble with cops on their own turf. In this instance, we've seen a lot of throwing and firing back and forth," Roché notes. "Injuries are another measure. So far, we've had 77 police injuries in just two nights of conflict alone, versus 200 police injuries in three weeks of rioting in 2005. This is pretty intense...
...apprehension in New Delhi as the recent actions of President Pervez Musharraf. India's security establishment views Musharraf's political troubles from the perspective of regional stability, sharing with Washington the concern that priority be given to the campaign against the forces of Islamist fundamentalism in Pakistan. To the extent that enforcing emergency rule occupies the security forces, Indian security experts say, the danger increases of escalating infiltration into India of militants from Pakistan. Some also fear that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, which India has long accused of training and funding terror operations across India and South Asia...
...often demand that they practice safe sex. Dr. Geeta Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women, notes that women bear the heaviest burden of AIDS around the world. "Women still have problems discussing safe sex with their partners," says Gupta. "This survey highlights the extent to which stigma continues to be a significant barrier to people being able to talk about the epidemic, to accept risk, and to access services. [It] highlights how much more we need to do in order to ... ensure that people around the world understand that HIV/AIDS is [still] an epidemic that puts...
...economic giant: China finishes 34th overall, showing strength in areas like university-industry research collaboration (25th--see page 74) and national savings rate (7th) while remaining among the world's worst countries for things like the soundness of banks (128th). As for India, there is always discussion about the extent to which that country's bureaucratic, multistate, multiparty democracy handicaps it--a communist government like China's doesn't have to worry about building consensus for economic policies...