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Depending on the source, Japan's mythic "Lost Decade" lasted from 1989 to 2003, or sometime later if the exact bottom of the real estate market in the Asian nation is taken into account. Because the period began with easy access to capital followed by a sharp drop in the stock market and property values, it is now being compared to what many economists believe began in the US two years ago. They fear, probably with good reason, that GDP growth will simply stay in a narrow band of extremely modest growth or no growth at all and the lack...
...They left them to be murdered.' PAUL KAGAME, President of Rwanda, on the 15th anniversary of the nation's 1994 genocide, blasting the international community for failing to intervene...
...truly appreciate the nonpartisan tone Kurt Andersen took in his essay "The End of Excess" [April 6]. I say this not because I think America should become nonpartisan but because being a partisan nation has and will continue to make us the greatest nation on the planet. At the end of the day, we need to realize that the only thing we are entitled to is a chance. Ryan Hanson, RHINELANDER...
...While that number isn't staggering - UNAIDS estimates that 33 million people are living with HIV worldwide - the potential for things to get worse is alarming. As the world's most populous nation, the upswing in the epidemic is of great concern, Schwartländer says. While HIV/AIDS became a visible public health issue in much of the developed world more than 20 years ago, China did not put real resouces into fighting the disease until 2003. Confronted by the UN's so-called 2002 "Titanic" report, which said China faced an AIDS epidemic of "proportions beyond belief" and compared...
...says. "The big question is always, 'How do we make sure these good, sensible policies and ideas are really implemented throughout the whole country?'" It is not enough to have good policies in Beijing; the work has to happen in the provinces and the communities where 60% of the nation actually lives. "Unless you understand how you can translate the policies into the realities of where the people are living, you will not succeed," he says. "There's an opportunity here to make sure 50 million people don't become infected...