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...work at home or in the fields. India's shocking 64% literacy rate lags far behind that of its neighbor China and bodes ill for its long-term development. New Delhi plans to pump $38 billion into the education sector over the next five years, but the government has much to deliver as it tries to reconcile India's vast social inequities. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of modest origins himself, knows the struggle is worth it: "I am what I am because of education...
...beyond the realm of foreign relations. They ushered Hatoyama into office to breathe new life into an ossified political system that proved incapable of reversing the slow-motion decline of Japan's economy and global influence, a phenomenon the Japanese call "Japan passing." Thirty years ago, Japan was much like the China of today, an up-and-coming global power with an economy that was the envy of the world. Japanese companies such as Sony, Toyota and Honda shoved aside their competition from the West. By the late 1980s, Americans came to see Japan's economic firepower as arguably...
...rebuilt 217 of the 400 or so schools destroyed by the Taliban. It is also footing the bill, thanks to a nationwide voluntary contribution of two days' pay by the troops themselves, a move that raised more than 100 million rupees (almost $1.2 million). The military is also much more efficient. Lt. Col. Abbas points to the restoration of a historic hostel in Swat as an example: Civil contractors estimate it would cost 80 million rupees for the reconstruction. The army did it for 20 million rupees, of its own money...
...military. The destruction is so widespread, he says, that it's "not really possible" for the government to do it alone. "I would recommend that the army stays here in the same numbers for quite some time," he adds, "because the civilian institutions have been ruined so much that it will take some time for them to stand on their own feet...
...vote getters go, the government could have done much worse. The plan taps into creeping resentment among fans over the ways top clubs manage their money. The world's richest soccer competition by measure of revenue, England's Premier League also tops the table when it comes to debt: 18 of its 20 teams owed a total of $5.2 billion in 2008 according to UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe - more than all the clubs in the continent's other top divisions combined. (Debt-ridden Portsmouth, one of two Premier League teams not included in UEFA's sums...