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But with Beijing 2008, the sports system has gone into overdrive. After 2001, the annual budget for the Sports Ministry increased to $714 million, from $428 million the year before. "With the Olympics in Beijing, we want to make sure we do very well," says Hao Qiang, head of the...
Property owners should protect copper from burglars the same way they would a stereo, says Sidoti--install fences, motion-detector lights and security cameras. Meanwhile, lawmakers looking to crack down on copper thieves are starting at the scrap yard. Thirty-five states have pending or signed legislation requiring people selling...
Despite that economic muscle, it's unlikely to offend anyone, not least because it's unusually open about its agenda. The fund's managers publish an annual report making clear their interest in financial - not political - returns. And with Norway's central bank left alone to run the fund, the...
Eus Van Someren at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that elderly patients with dementia who were exposed to bright lights in long-term care facilities scored 5% better on cognitive tests and had 19% fewer depressive symptoms than similar patients residing...
Along with 59 other top educators, policymakers and health officials--including three former surgeon generals, she's put her name to a nonpartisan document to be released on Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank. Titled "A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education," it lays out an expansive...