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...greatest economic and military power on earth. A hundred years before Europe began its mastery of Asia and America, China had the biggest and best navy in the world. But for an accident of history, Europe would be speaking Chinese today. China discovered the inventions that would pave the way to world mastery for those who put them to use: the printing press, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. Given this economic, military and technical head start, what happened? Europe, not China, became the world's colonizer and mapmaker. Why did China do so badly in the modern...
...health care provider's right to privacy. Under the new guidelines, hospital errors would be made public, but the identity of doctors and other hospital workers would be kept confidential - a compromise opposed by the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association, who argue such widespread exposure could pave the road for an onslaught of litigation and could thus drive health care providers to try to hide mistakes...
...just about over in our part of the city," Toomey said. "If this fails tonight, there's nothing left except to pave the Charles River...
...Within a week he collided head on with racism. His immediate response was to flee the country that so degraded people of color, but then his inner resilience overpowered him with a sense of mission, and he stayed to redeem the dignity of the racially exploited, to pave the way for the liberation of the colonized the world over and to develop a blueprint for a new social order...
...Biracial students share the experience of growing up mixed, and my hope is that HAPA will pave the way for a more inclusive, multiracial group because, in many ways, I feel that I share more with another biracial student, even if their mix is not the same as mine, than I do with another white or Asian-American student," Weisinger wrote in an e-mail message. "I feel that if you're half-Asian/half-Caucasian, the expectation is that you'll simply join an organization that reflects your Asian half, and if your other half is a different minority...