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...major health agencies from Australia, Canada, China, Britain and the U.S., which together control 80% of the world's public health-research funding, announced today the formation of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). "Our focus is on reducing the burden of chronic diseases in developing countries," says Leszek Borysiewicz, the chief executive of the U.K. Medical Research Council. "It's critically important to make these interventions now." (Read how health workers are helping fight killer diseases in the developing world...
...some ways, Poles, including Tusk himself, have never had it so good. Leszek Balcerowicz, a former Finance Minister and the chief architect of Poland's post-communist reforms, says the country is living through "its best period in 300 years." The economy is growing, and the country's alliances with Europe and the U.S. are strong. Not since 1989, according to one recent survey, have the Polish people felt so optimistic about the direction their country is taking...
...Bush policy: refusing to criticize Israel's strategy or tactics in Lebanon or call for an immediate cease-fire. Blair's transformation today into official lame duck means all the European leaders who backed the Iraq war - Spain's Jose Maria Aznar, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi and Poland's Leszek Miller - have paid the ultimate political price...
...alternative" but to invite Lepper into government because it could not find another partner to form a majority. The country's new leadership, as a result, could be as welcome in the rest of Europe as the proverbial Polish plumber. "Poland's image has been damaged," Leszek Balcerowicz, governor of the central bank and architect of Poland's postcommunist reforms, told Time last week. "The governing party's strategy is to win votes by demonizing the transformation [to free markets]." So far that strategy has worked just fine for the pis, which was elected last September (with...
...Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava. "It's not good for the country," he says. "Our image abroad will suffer." Governments in the Czech Republic and Poland are also struggling. Support for the Czech Republic's ruling Social Democrats is at a low at 14.5%. Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller announced in March that he will step down May 2 - a day after his country joins the E.U. - after his ruling party split amid allegations of corruption and mismanagement. There is similar turmoil in Lithuania, where deputies voted to impeach scandal-plagued President Rolandas Paksas. But given Paksas' reputation...