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...JINTAO Nigeria During Hu's visit this April, the former British colony granted China four oil-drilling licenses while China offered $4 billion in infrastructure assistance. China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) invested $2.3 billion in an oil field the week before Hu's visit, its largest ever overseas acquisition...
...husband, Ramanan Thiagarajah. "We totally thought they were joking," she says. Since then, she has been inundated with calls from around the world. As it turns out, Thiagarajah is an appropriate model for the story on the globalization of India: she's Indian but grew up in Nigeria and is married to a Sri Lankan, with whom she lives in California...
...have you learned from it? That is a good question. Certainly I did not want to write this memoir in the way it turned out. But that is the problem with writers. I learned never to write your biography beyond the age of innocence and that is about 11. Nigeria returned to democracy seven years ago. How is it doing? I would say it has done very well because civil society has become strengthened during this process. Civil society was really in disarray under the military regime ... I lauded the creation of [two] anticorruption bodies which have made tremendous strides...
...behind ABA and Floortime, your report will help parents make a more informed decision. Alisa Vig, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist Jerusalem You can read more of Claudia Wallis' reporting on treatments for autism at timearchive.com A Region of Unrest Your incisive account of the pathetic plight of the inhabitants of Nigeria's Niger Delta was noteworthy [May 22]. I am glad Time reported that the militants prowling the swamps and creeks of the delta have been armed by politicians, the same people responsible for the continued degradation and consequent state of abject poverty pervading the area. The deprivation in the region...
...come a time when despots, dictators and Presidents-for-life will be a minority among world leaders. Those like the King will no longer be described as surprising. Able and people-oriented leadership will have become the norm and will no longer be an aberration. Gabriel A. Amadi Aba, Nigeria...