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...intervention. The government recently enacted extensive new laws covering enterprise, investment and securities, which would boost protection for private businesses and increase transparency. Still, it will take time to train thousands of bureaucrats to apply rules fairly. The country ranks in the bottom third of Transparency International's corruption index; a recent government inspection of state ministries uncovered 1,700 graft cases in the first nine months of this year. Some investors grumble the government is still apt to make sudden changes in taxes, for instance, without notice. "Information is a big issue," says Dominic Scriven, director of Dragon Capital...
Sources: Brookings Institution Iraq Index; GlobalSecurity.org HealingIraq.blogspot.com Iraq Revenue Watch; NASA; DigitalGlobe; LandScan/UT-Battelle TIME Map by Kathleen Adams and Joe Lertola...
...site that allows people to assess their risk for five common diseases in the United States caused the site to be temporarily inaccessible due to heavy traffic. Yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Protection (HCCP) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), features a risk index for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoperosis, and stroke. An article about the site published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday caused 22,000 people with unique IP addresses to try the site in a two-hour window, according to Webmaster of HSPH Deane Eastwood. The spike in the number...
...couch, cameras ready, oversized index cards in my sweaty palms. The silence is pregnant...
...Chemical Biology Libraries. Chapin declined to comment for this story. According to Hoctor, Harvard made several key suggestions that were eventually implemented, such as the necessity of making DiscoveryGate compatible with Macintosh computers in order for it to be viable in academic and corporate research and integrating a searchable index into the software. Anyone with a Harvard IP address can download the DiscoveryGate software platform through https://discoverygate.com...