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...formation of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). "Our focus is on reducing the burden of chronic diseases in developing countries," says Leszek Borysiewicz, the chief executive of the U.K. Medical Research Council. "It's critically important to make these interventions now." (Read how health workers are helping fight killer diseases in the developing world...
...that Greenberg and a company he controls, Starr International, took when he left his former employer. AIG says those shares and the more than $4 billion in profits Starr International has reaped from past stock sales are the property of the insurer and its employees. But rather than fight over the merits of the case, both sides have spent the past few weeks arguing that they should win because what they plan to do with the money is more worthy than what the other side has planned. "You do see this sort of thing in cases that involve people with...
...problems started, as the article admits, when the Americans used us to fight their war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, spawning the Taliban and creating a refugee crisis that drained our resources. Now, again, we are plunged into an American war that is pushing us to the brink. We love our country and we will not succumb to terror - al-Qaeda's or America's. Nishat Mummunka, Lahore, Pakistan...
...Bajro Ikanovic, 32, one of the four men arrested for plotting terrorist attacks as a result of that raid. Sitting in a café during a four-day furlough from prison, he told me he has converted several young men to militant Islam, and has pressed them to consider fighting to defend their religion. "Muslims who do not preach jihad are cowards, or just too comfortable with their lives," he says. Asked if young militants should fight in the Afghanistan or Iraq wars, he says, "Why not? If my Muslim brother is fighting in Pakistan, his enemy is my enemy...
...York. And it's change few Central Asia watchers expect to be positive. While great powers vie for resources and influence, countries that were once seen as a bulwark against more turbulent nations to the south and west are themselves lurching toward crisis. See pictures of the fight for water in Central Asia...