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...Iraq war; if every young man is suddenly a potential grunt on his way to Baghdad, the thinking goes, the war would end rather quickly. It's also an argument made by those who are uneasy that the burden of this war is being unfairly shouldered by the 1.4-million-strong U.S. military and no one else. But a new report from the Congressional Budget Office this week makes clear that resuming the draft would be no panacea...
...other incidents ranged from violent demonstrations against forced abortions and police brutality to an anti-pollution protest that took place entirely online. All were fueled because of the Internet, and in particular the country's 20 million-strong bloggers. Says Bequelin, of the possibility for change in China: "The role of the Internet is the one aspect of the kiln story that made me optimistic...
...raise wages. But Keidanren head Fujio Mitarai has rebuffed those calls, lobbying the government instead to lower corporate tax and raise the consumption tax, shifting more of the financial burden to ordinary workers. "In his heart Abe feels consideration for households," says Tsuyoshi Takagi, president of the nearly 7-million-strong Japanese Trade Union Confederation. "Yet he's pushing reforms for [the benefit of] business. People are disappointed...
...Warsaw square where John Paul II encouraged his countrymen to maintain their faith in the face of the Communist regime. He visited his predecessor?s hometown and gave hope to those who want to see John Paul be made a saint as soon as possible. And he drew a million-strong crowd Sunday morning in Krakow, the former diocese of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, for an open-air mass. All along, he received rave reviews from the devout Polish people...
Gates is investing increased resources in building up African Studies. This greater focus on Africa is long overdue. It is difficult to imagine how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and AAAS could prioritize the study of a roughly 40 million-strong demographic group, however important, within a single country over the study of the second largest continent in the world, with 54 sovereign states and over 800 million people, a seventh of the total world population. Africa contains a multitude of different cultures and peoples living in a land-mass of great climactic, topological, ecological diversity. It boasts...