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...issues ranging from Japan's faltering economy to the appointment of a new central-bank governor. Initiatives by Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been bottled up in parliament by resurgent opposition politicians. Recent polls have put Fukuda's public approval rating at about 25% - lower than Abe's before he resigned after less than a year in office. "When [Fukuda's] approval breaks below 20%, he's really in deep trouble," says Gerald Curtis, a political-science professor and Japan specialist at Columbia University. "That can happen and I bet he's holding his breath...
...spread of communicable diseases has been cut; some critics blame shifting government priorities. One of the best ways a country can improve its health, for instance, is by making sure its children are immunized against measles, polio and other life-threatening illnesses. But immunization rates in India are significantly lower than in other developing nations such as Bangladesh, China and Indonesia. Just 43.5% of very young children are fully immunized. "It's shameful," says A.K. Shiva Kumar, an economist and public-health expert who consults to the United Nations Children Fund in India and was a member of the government...
...story on Obama's "Bitter" comments, Tumulty refers to "downscale voters." Webster's defines downscale as "located or moving toward ... the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale." It would be interesting to know, in Tumulty's neo-élitist judgment, what constitutes a downscale voter. Frank Brodersen, Fredericksburg...
...Eurocontrol negotiated what Hendriks calls a "gentleman's agreement" with Blink, Jet Bird and other microjet operators that they would not fly above 28,000 ft. (8,500 m), the minimum cruising altitude of commercial jets. But that agreement collapsed in April after the operators claimed that flying at lower altitudes would burn too much fuel, making it tough to operate profitably. In October, Eurocontrol will conduct a simulation in Budapest that will flood air-traffic control with hundreds of microjets. If the test suggests that the safety of larger planes could be compromised, Eurocontrol may push regulators to mandate...
...program provided up to $4,310 of need-based financial assistance to low-income students for the 2007-2008 academic year. The average recipient’s annual household income is under $20,000. Fitzsimmons attributed Harvard’s increasing socioeconomic diversity to aggressive recruitment and outreach to lower-income students. But Fitzsimmons said that it has not been easy convincing prospective applicants that Harvard is affordable even for the very poor. “We’re not under any illusions. We know this is almost a generational battle. We have to fight. We can?...