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...usual. Back at the Minato welfare office, 71-year-old Asako Hamada sees little reason for hope. "I don't know anything about politics, but I know things are not well at the present moment," she says. "That neither the LDP nor the opposition parties have been able to offer any resolutions that give peace of mind to the Japanese is quite worrying." Candidates from both parties running on July 29 should be worried...
...been able to convince the democracy lovers that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that it's not impossible to end the rule of dictators backed by men in military uniform. Now it's time for other pro-democracy leaders to get under one umbrella and offer a progressive vision. Now is the time to sow the seeds of democracy in Pakistan and marginalize the nation's extremists. Arvind K. Pandey, Allahabad, India...
...This rapid rise testifies to the buoyancy of China's equity markets. The relentless increase in stock prices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen-the former market has trebled in value in just the past 18 months-has triggered a stampede of Chinese companies eager to offer shares to a ravenous public. But is the IPO boom a historic milestone marking the permanent shift of China's financial center of gravity from Hong Kong to the mainland? Or is it a temporary aberration that, for investors, will come to a tragic and costly...
...does that mean tomatoes aren't worth eating? Not at all, say researchers. When it comes to prostate cancer in particular, tomatoes may yet offer some health benefits. Many doctors believe that tomato products, and lycopene, don't affect all prostate cancers equally, but may instead help slow the growth only of aggressive and late-stage prostate tumors. "There is some evidence that it's at the later stages of prostate cancer where lycopene might be most relevant," says Dr. Edward Giovannucci, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and principal author...
...Although Israel publicly refuses to deal directly with Hamas "terrorists," Israel's top hostage negotiator, Ofer Dekel, met recently with jailed Hamas commanders to persuade them to put pressure on their leadership to accept the new offer. Inside prison, Palestinian inmates are separated according to their allegiance to Hamas or Fatah, since otherwise they would clash, a mirror of their rivalry inside the Palestinian territories. Hamas prisoners are better organized and more disciplined than Fatah inmates, according to Anat Berko, a criminologist at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who frequently speaks with the Palestinian inmates...