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...Lisbon Treaty was not designed to colour chunks of the planet blue with yellow stars. Its job is to get the national economies of 27 extremely diverse nation-states working together more smoothly than before, and getting the politics united is just part of that economic lubrication. Better by far to be underwhelming and effective rather than overbearing and running a democracy where agreed national reform legislation - vitally needed - can find itself blocked due to the lack of one Senatorial vote. Caroline Walcot, BRUSSELS...
...embarrassment, yet efforts to change it have been stymied for almost as long as moves to revive Japan's economy. The government's finances are deteriorating as politicians refuse to make the hard decisions on what the country does and does not need. The education system requires far more attention if the economy is to compete in the 21st century. And yet, these problems just linger on, getting worse year after year...
...giving the region the respect it feels it merits. An editorial in the Bangkok Post - the leading English-language daily in Thailand, a nation that is usually dependably pro-American - summed up the prevailing sentiment: "Mr. Obama's promises about restoring U.S. interest in Asia ... have proved so far to be more talk than substance...
...foreign and local lives over the past eight years. Just weeks before Obama was due in Indonesia, police shot dead at an Internet café outside Jakarta a man believed to have orchestrated the 2002 bombings of two Bali nightclubs. Indonesia's efforts to counter its terror threat - so far it has had impressive success in netting hundreds of suspected extremists and re-educating youths susceptible to the call of militant clerics - can provide the world lessons on how to excise the cancer of religiously inspired violence from the Islamic faith...
...successful was the project that it spawned Galaxy Zoo 2 in February 2009 to classify another 250,000 SDSS galaxies. To date, more than 57 million classifications have been made by some 265,000 volunteers (this reporter's contribution is, so far, a meager 267); another 5 million classifications will finish the job. There's also an entire "Zooniverse" of related citizen-science projects, which include simulating galaxy collisions to study mergers; hunting for supernovae and hypervelocity stars, incredibly rare stars that are so "fast," they escape the gravitational pull of a galaxy; and compiling collections of "irregulars," galaxies that...