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...province. Again and again, the Communist regime has been infuriated by Chen's efforts to push the island closer to independence, completing its transformation from an exiled regime - the Republic of China, with its pretensions of ruling the mainland - into an entity completely separate from China, a fully sovereign nation called Taiwan. And so, on Saturday, one could almost hear the cheering in China after Chen's Democratic Progressive Party suffered a humiliating loss in Taiwan's legislative elections. Just almost. The Chinese have learned to keep their feelings to themselves over Taiwan...
...veterans of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, the suit says, at least 15% suffer from PTSD, an emotional illness characterized by nightmares, memory loss and irritability. The VA's failure to provide treatment - only 27 of the nation's 1,400 VA hospitals have programs dedicated to PTSD - has led to an "epidemic of suicides" by returning troops, said Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense, the lead plaintiff group...
...secure as we should be. Our military is stretched thin and our nation remains vulnerable to catastrophic terrorism...
...panel member said that a third party race would not be necessary if the parties nominated candidates who appealed to the middle and faced the nation's problems squarely. "The more successful the two-party candidates are at engaging independent voters," said former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, "the less reason there is to have an independent candidacy...
...French experts predict the plan is likely to hit French Internet access providers with a small, universal per-client tax each month. A flat monthly surtax of just one euro on each of the nation's 16.1 million Internet accounts would raise around $290 million per year - or nearly 25% of the $1.2 billion in annual revenues public TV will lose to an advertising ban. It is conceivable, at least, that the monthly tax could go even higher without incurring too much consumer fury, since France currently enjoys one of the cheapest ISP markets in the developed world. Average monthly...