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...With Shanghai stocks now trading at an average of about 38 times their projected 2007 earnings-a high ratio even for a fast-growing developing economy-China is causing a serious case of the shakes. The issue isn't simply that the little guys are in danger of losing their savings. It's whether a serious market downturn might blunt, or even reverse, China's growth. Mainland authorities have already made it clear that they are concerned about economic overheating, "and the stock market is part of that picture," says an economist at the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS...
...Take health. In 2000, 47% of Indian children under 3 were malnourished, according to government figures. Today, the malnourishment rate in kids is 46%-only a single percentage point better. India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, regularly points out the country's dispiriting disparities. "Poverty is falling, but not fast enough," he told the Planning Commission last October. "We cannot expect harmony if large sections of our population see themselves as marginalized...
...Galluccio said in an interview yesterday that he is “seriously considering” running for Barrios’s seat and has received many calls from supporters. “This is happening very fast, and it’s something I want to take a serious look at,” he said, “but it’s obviously an excellent opportunity...
While all three of those schools provide for committee review of potential conflicts, none of the three holds to a hard-and-fast prohibition against professors investing in companies that fund their basic research...
...Kremlin and British investigators have, so far, not agreed on much about the case, with Russian investigators suggesting that Litvinenko's murderer is likely to be found among London's fast-growing community of exiled Russian dissidents and expats. Russian human rights activist Oleg Panfilov says he does not expect the Kremlin to change its tune now. "They see the whole thing not as a crime to be resolved, but as a sharp point of their confrontation with the West...