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...please Burma's neighbors. While the U.S. and many other Western countries have persisted with economic sanctions, Japan, China, India and Thailand have actively pursued a policy of engagement with Burma, encouraging closer economic ties and increased trade in the hope that the generals would gradually ease their grip on society. Khin Nyunt traveled frequently, and appeared to accept that Burma needed to reduce its diplomatic isolation to avoid economic collapse. He was admired abroad for granting regional autonomy to the armed rebel groups that live along Burma's borders with its neighbors?deals that might now unravel. "China will...
...camera?can also shoot 2-megapixel photographs and has a built-in 10x optical zoom lens for both video and stills. One thing that's not mini, however, is the price: $1,425 for the basic GZ-MC100, and $1,605 for the GZ-MC200, which has a swiveling grip for extra comfort...
...Magic Seeds, Willie comes back to India, to join a movement of armed revolutionaries intent on ending the grip of feudal landlords on the countryside. But his real goal is not social revolution: time is running out for him to make a man of himself, and he figures he'll do it by fighting for a good cause. Almost as soon as he joins the guerrillas, he realizes he has made a mistake: he has fallen in among murderers and terrorists. In the chapters that follow, Naipaul sketches brilliant psychological portraits of the guerrillas?you understand that...
...Harvard men soccer team might not have the whole world in its hands, but it does have a potential grip on the Ivy League championship
...Pedro Alonso of the University of Barcelona. It protected 30% of the children from clinical infection with the disease. If further trials are successful, GlaxoSmithKline, which developed the vaccine in partnership with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, hopes to get a license for commercial production by 2010. Strengthening His Grip PAKISTAN Opposition parties decried as unconstitutional a bill passed by the lower house of Parliament enabling President Pervez Musharraf to remain as head of the army. Musharraf pledged in December 2003 to step down as military chief at the end of this year. The opposition said that such a constitutional change...