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...should the West respond to the economic metamorphoses brought about by the rise of India and China? Those who fear they will be hurt by the changes at hand usually call for protectionism. Those who expect to benefit tend to insist that the free market instead be given free rein. Neither option works very well. In the U.S. as well as in Europe and other developed economies, every job moved offshore leaves a tiny hole in the fabric of middle-class life. There are gains to the world economy, but those are not so immediate as the pain...
Given the size and often unwieldy nature of the Medical School, Faust said in the interview Wednesday that, though she did not insist on an insider, she is “very happy to have a person with deep and intimate knowledge of the Medical School...
Georgia officials insist that Davis' failed 2004 federal court hearing is proof he has had his opportunity in court with the new evidence. "They've had a chance to challenge the conviction," said David Lock, chief assistant district attorney in Chatham County, where Savannah is located...
...McCain's support for the unpopular conflict has cost him dearly, particularly among the independent voters whose support was once seen as his main claim to being the most electable candidate in November 2008. But it has also come to symbolize the resolve that his advisers insist is McCain's greatest asset. "This is a guy who refuses to back down from his core principles," McCain's New Hampshire Vice Chairman Steve Duprey said in introducing the Arizona Senator to the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, eliciting one of the few rounds of applause and cheering in what was otherwise...
...Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits...