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...Local Muslims complain they have largely been left out of the government-sanctioned arms race, even if more than half of all deaths have come from their ranks. "If we carry guns, [the military] says we are insurgents," says one Muslim academic who declined to be named. "But if Buddhists do, then that's O.K. because they're just protecting themselves." (Some ethnic Malays concede they are scared of joining state-sponsored militias because insurgents might see them as collaborators and target them.) Racial discrimination continues to fester in Thailand's deep south. An Amnesty International report released earlier this...
Hardest hit: makers of small, light and midsize jets, such as Cessna Aircraft Co. and Hawker Beechcraft. Cessna, the largest company in the category, has halved its workforce of 16,000 this year because projected 2009 deliveries were cut almost in half, to 275. "I don't think the market will bottom out until the middle of next year," projects Jack Pelton, Cessna's CEO. "Then we will slowly crawl out of this predicament when corporate earnings improve in 2011." The demonization of corporate jets by Congress, prompted initially by the CEOs of the Detroit automakers, has helped kill thousands...
...introduce kids to the language and culture as early as possible - ideally, before age 12, while they're still absorbing information like sponges. Kindergartners and first-graders are taught exclusively in Mandarin, and a single period of English is introduced in second grade. By sixth grade, kids are learning half in English and half in Mandarin, with the expectation of proficiency in both. In Yinghua's classrooms, the walls are covered not with ABCs but with pictures and Chinese characters describing seasons, weather and the months of the year. On a hallway map of the world, the phrase we live...
Still, fourth ain't half bad at all, especially out of an applicant pool of 4,800 and a group of ten editor-selected finalists, which included Nobel Prize-winning physicist Burton Richter, former assistant secretary of commerce Darryl Jackson, and Council on Foreign Relations expert Lydia Khalil...
From 2002 to 2006, the share of educational costs represented by student tuition rose from just over one-third to nearly one-half at public four year institutions across the country. "Students are paying more and getting less in the classroom," says Jane Wellman, author of "Trends in College Spending," a report by the Delta Project, a Washington, DC nonprofit that tracks postsecondary education costs. The amount of money spent on instruction has declined at all institutions - public and private -since...