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...billion people, where 800 million earn $2 a day or less, the Naxal movement shows that members-only progress can spur a deep sense of injustice. Economic growth of 7-8% sounds pretty good until you realize it means just an extra $40 a year for the average Indian. The changes that will improve the life chances of all - ending malnutrition and corruption, reforming infrastructure, education and health care - will take generations to achieve. History suggests progress will be uneven and messy. During the Industrial Revolution in the British Isles, starvation and forced migration almost halved Ireland's population...
...scientists, it's also been a massive headache for the Federal Government, local tribes and the lawyers who represent them. At issue is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a 1990 law intended to make up in some way for the generations of scientific strip-mining Indian lands have endured, by either selectively protecting artifacts still in Native American hands or returning those that have been carried...
...Archaeologists always tell us where we came from," says Rochanne Downs, a coordinator for the dozens of Indian tribes that have banded together in the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition. "Well, we know where we came from. Our people were made from mud, and then the tribes were sent out. Sometimes people think that's funny, but when I look at the Immaculate Conception, that seems kind of odd to me." Not all Indians believe in the ancient-clay idea, but if those who do are going to be shown the same respect as the adherents of any other...
President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finalized a nuclear-technology agreement last week. Here's a look at the deal, which the two leaders hailed as a sign of cooperation between democracies but critics called a threat to global security...
...nuclear standards. India never signed the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998. Critics say other nations will now want their own exceptions to the rules. U.S. officials argue that this plan is an improvement on the status quo; currently only six of 23 Indian reactors are open to inspection...