Word: pacificism
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OBESITY The obesity epidemic and its attendant health risks continued to spread around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the number of adults who are overweight or obese passed the 1 billion mark in 2005. Although obesity rates have grown threefold or more since 1980 in some...
Our profiles of heroic people whose energy and passion are making a difference in the fight against the world's most dangerous diseases garnered enthusiastic praise. But readers also took note of the need to do more to save the lives of poor people at risk from preventable illnesses Your...
President Bush may be seen as a unilateralist, but at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, his style never goes it alone. At the annual trade talks, he and 20 other heads of state don the traditional garb of the host city, which last week entailed wearing South Korean hanbok...
But the biggest concern is that a failure to make progress in trade liberalization could mean a lurch toward protectionism. The mood in many parts of the world is turning hostile to free trade in the face of low-cost competition from China in manufactured goods and India in IT...
The American contingent's three days in South Korea, centered around an annual Asia-Pacific economic summit, are underscoring differences between the allies, at a time when Bush is anxious to portray unity in confronting Roh's nuclear neighbor, North Korea. Roh, given a choice between dissembling or dissing Bush...