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...operation. Train travel in India remains infuriatingly slow. A 1,378-mile (2,217 km) trip from New Delhi to Goa just before Christmas, for instance, took me 35 hours, almost a day longer than a train trip over a similar distance in Europe would take. Because of a lack of equipment and tiny station platforms, freight is sometimes thrown from trains in heaps. The heavier loading, critics charge, has caused more breakdowns. (Kumar denies this.) Older carriages can be dirty, shabby and full of cockroaches - and that's in upper class. "If our carriage, which is the best...
...Apologies have symbolic value but often lack substance. The solutions to indigenous people's problems are vastly more difficult than saying a few words. Prime Minister Rudd also failed to acknowledge the role of his Labor Party in originating almost all of the indigenous legislation that is now being condemned. Doubtless there will now be many claims for compensation by indigenous people. Will apologies also be made to the British children taken to orphanages in Australia last century, to internees during the world wars, to Pacific islanders kidnaped to work in the Queensland cane fields, to the unwed mothers...
...blaming Australians for injustices that are a myth. Former PM John Howard expressed regret but did not say "sorry" because there was, and still is, no proof that Aboriginal children were stolen. Welfare organizations only removed children from situations in which they were endangered by abuse, malnutrition, and a lack of normal care. J.D. Rogers, Brighton, Victoria...
...Besides Cuba’s questionable success in reducing infant mortality, health care in other respects is decidedly lacking. Cubans are indeed granted free diagnosis, but they lack free care. Cuba lacks the resources to treat its patients, who are expected to supply their own pillows and water during hospital visits. These hospitals are in decaying condition, a fact made more appalling by its contrast to the exemplary hospitals which only foreigners have access...
...have destabilized the marketplace. Milk producers, for example, may find it hard to break even selling fresh milk at official prices; and so they find profits by selling their products abroad or by producing cheeses whose prices are not dictated by the government. Perhaps to make up for the lack of profits from regulated staples, non-regulated food items have experieced inflation of 32.7% last year. Perhaps reflecting the effect of price controls on the country's liquid milk industry, daily production levels are at 3.5 million liters a day when ithe industry has the capacity to process 12 million...