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...embezzlement and bribery scandal that brought down a top government minister and put several people behind bars. Now Nguyen Van Hai and Nguyen Viet Chien are in jail themselves, ironically on charges similar to those filed against the officials they investigated: "the abuse of power for personal gain...
...environmental implications, exploiting resources and emitting carbon dioxide at rates that placed the world in its current binding predicament starting during the Industrial Revolution. As China and India now undergo periods of rapid growth and approach huge upswings in development, it is unrealistic to expect them to forego economic gain in order to protect the environment. Certainly, the issue of fairness needs to be considered in coming up with a plausible solution...
French Prime Minister François Fillon immediately convened a committee of both houses of French parliament to review and reintroduce the legislation for another vote, when whips will presumably insure a full turnout to gain passage. Despite public suspicion of GMOs, that shouldn't prove difficult, since the bill is hardly radical. It obliges farmers to separate natural and GMO cultivation, and sets permitted limits of GMO "contamination" to surrounding plots; requires public disclosure of where GMO crops are located; and make the destruction of GMO crops by protesters - an act for which Bové has been repeatedly arrested...
...possibilities are - virtually - endless. Inhabit buffed-up versions of yourself to lose weight, cuter versions of yourself to gain confidence, or older versions to start putting money away for the future (that last one is being studied at Stanford now). "The most stunning part is how subtle the manipulations are and how difficult they are to detect," says Bailenson, "but how much it affects real life later...
...Looking back at the U.S. reaction to Japan in the 1980s can help us gain some perspective on America's economic relationship with Asia today...