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...world reads headlines such as MAFIA INC. ITALY'S LARGEST COMPANY, but none of the candidates for Prime Minister deem this worthy of mention. The Sicilian Mafia, 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and Camorra in my home region of Campania currently reign over one-third of Italy's territory, infiltrating entire sectors of the aboveboard economy - transportation, hospitals, construction, fashion, supermarkets, agriculture - like a cancer to which no part of the nation is immune...
...reforming is Tokyo's Waseda University. Four years ago, Waseda launched a new School of International Liberal Studies as a testing ground for "enforced artificial internationalism," as Paul Snowden, the school's dean, describes it. All classes are taught in English. The school as a matter of policy recruits one-third of its students from overseas, from countries as far away as Iceland and Uganda. The strategy seems to be working. Since it opened, the program has seen enrollment grow at an annual average rate of 15%. "This school is dragging Waseda kicking and screaming into the 21st century," Snowden...
...Qualified Apology Your cover story on the Australian government's "sorry" to Aboriginal people tells only one side of the story [Feb. 25]. I have lived in Australia for one-third of its history; my ancestors came here in 1791. My English ancestor was "stolen" from his family at the age of 16 for catching a fish in a farmer's stream. My Irish ancestor was "stolen" from his family for protesting against British landlords. People like them and their descendants worked to build Australia as a modern nation. When Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said sorry, he did not speak...
...appropriated the language of the empowered autonomous patient in the service of sales," she says. Moreover, while the FDA can request that pharmaceutical companies provide ads for the agency to review before airing, it does not have the authority to enforce this request. An agency spokesperson estimated that only one-third of such ads are actually reviewed by the FDA before airing. A proposal to increase funding for the FDA to conduct more such reviews was rejected last month...
...Between one-third and two-thirds of students who declare their intention to study biology or engineering while matriculating have switched their concentrations away from the sciences...