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...able to access news and information from the outside world. There's no point in downplaying a political crackdown because people will find out about it anyway, Gainsborough says. Instead, the government has opted to use the media "to continually remind the public that [dissidents] are beyond the pale," he says. "They need to keep the dissidents and the majority of citizens apart...
...really worn down.” Although she didn’t miss any games because of it, the injury limited her effectiveness and durability. She ended 2006 with a 9-8 record, 88 strikeouts, and a 2.53 ERA. It was a decent campaign, but the stats pale in comparison to her performance this season. With the shoulder healed, the Tarzana, Calif. native turned her attention to dominating the Crimson’s opponents. In the crucial year-end series against Dartmouth, with the Ivy League North Division crown in the balance, Madick shut out the Big Green...
Extensively drug-resistanttuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the kind of germ that makes public-health officials go very pale when they talk about it. TB is bad enough, wasting bodies, ravaging lungs. The multi-- drug-resistant kind is worse. And XDR is the very rare but very awful strain that has all but exhausted the medical arsenal, leaving mainly faith and force as weapons: keep the patient isolated and hope that some treatment works against it, which happens in less than one-third of cases. The good news is that most people infected with the germ won't develop...
...point in downplaying a political crackdown because people will find out about it anyway, according to Martin Gainsborough, a political scientist and Vietnam expert at the University of Bristol in the U.K. Instead, the government is trying "to continually remind the public that these people are beyond the pale," Gainsborough says. "They need to keep the dissidents and the majority of citizens apart." The overall message: that activists are criminals, not dissidents - and that they are threatening Vietnam's stability...
...drain. The government has better things on which to spend money. A more appropriate means of targeting and reducing or eliminating illegal immigration is the demystification of the process to citizenship. If this process is made less complicated and easier to access, the incentives to immigrate illegally will pale beside the ease of the legal path to citizenship. Ultimately, however, there must be some process of selecting who will become a permanent resident and eventually a citizen. We believe that a system that puts a higher premium on skills better meets America’s demands than the status...