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...confrontation occurred in 2005 when the two governments faced off over potentially rich underwater natural-gas and oil fields in the East China Sea. The deposits lie inside maritime territory claimed by both countries, and the dispute has so far prevented either from tapping the oil and gas. Joint development is the only realistic solution, but with the two competing over everything from natural resources to global influence, neither can afford to back down. "Both sides have face at stake," says Ryosei Kokubun, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Tokyo's Keio University...
...rattle off fluently. Life as an illegal immigrant has deflated the dreams he once had. Still, he must keep up appearances for his family back home. His brother thinks Big Lin owns his own restaurant. In reality, he sweats over a wok at someone else's takeout joint, six days a week. Nor does he own a house, as Little Lin believes. Instead, Big Lin lives in a small room in a Cambridge boarding house along with other migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia and Poland...
...when leader Morgan Tsvangirai polled 42% to Mugabe's 56% in presidential elections. Since then the anti-Mugabe movement has foundered because of infighting and intimidation. Mugabe has unleashed a campaign of beatings, mass arrests and shootings of his political opponents. On March 11, state police attacked a joint M.D.C.-Christian march. Tsvangirai was taken into custody and beaten savagely. Since 2000, Mugabe has also encouraged mobs to invade farms owned by the country's remaining white residents, who number in the tens of thousands and mainly back the opposition. The M.D.C.'s principal base is in the urban slums...
...implications of low control are lots of paralyzed children, which is something that people have to think about,” Thompson said in a joint interview with her co-author, Radboud Duintjer Tebbens. “Even though they won’t be in the U.S., we are talking about paralyzed children in the low income countries...
Before holding an executive board meeting late last night, UC members presented their proposal yesterday afternoon to the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), a joint student and faculty committee chaired by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...