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...surprising - and they're worth paying attention to. The WHO offers some intuitive fixes: buckle down on speed limits, reduce drunk driving and tighten seat-belt laws. Others are less obvious - particularly the recommendations that tackle car safety by focusing on pedestrians and "vulnerable road users." More analyses of land use and road design are needed. Otherwise, walking remains unsafe at any speed...
...sensitive cases these lawyers have handled include illegal land seizures, representing victims of faulty products, like in last year's tainted-milk scandal, defending Tibetans accused of agitating for independence and, as in Li's case, defending followers of Falun Gong. "Lawyers no longer serve only as instruments of political control like how they were expected to perform from the 1950s to the 1970s," says Albert Ho, a Hong Kong solicitor and chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. "With the opening and liberalization of China, it needs to build a system of law and a sound legal system...
Going forward, who are the guests you'd most like to land for the show? I want to make sure we open up our doors to anybody who's worthwhile, who's newsworthy and who has something to say. It doesn't always have to be the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. It can be somebody in the political world, the comedians' world, even an average Joe who has made a difference or has some story to tell...
...boards of directors. The co-ops would operate by the rules of the insurance exchange and be capitalized by initial federal seed money. Conrad has compared the model to an HMO-like health cooperative operating in Washington State, but also, oddly enough, to agricultural cooperatives like Ocean Spray and Land O'Lakes. Republicans have not outright rejected the co-op idea. And over the weekend, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said of the co-op plan, "Having these ideas on the table is exactly where we need to be right now." The question is, Will...
...neighboring Tajikistan, government forces fanned out across the remote Rasht Valley in a supposed attempt to hunt down a notorious militant commander named Abdullo Rakhimov. The veteran jihadi, according to some local reports, had recently abandoned Taliban allies in Pakistan to resume the struggle in his nearby native land...