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...that's the Greek government's message. Still, even as Greeks grapple with changing their lifestyles, the fact that they like to spend could turn out to be a blessing. "Greece is a poor country with rich people," says Sarantis. "It's a strange thing." He has a point. Despite the economic downturn, Golden Hall, a luxury mall in the capital that opened in 2008, was packed on a recent postholiday weekend, and the shelves in many of its 131 stores were bare. And when a popular singer, Michalis Hatzigiannis, appeared on an Athens stage for one of his midnight...
That will prove difficult. For the past few weeks, farmers have ridden their tractors along Greece's highways to protest plans to cut subsidies. At one point, delivery of produce on the country's northern borders ground to a halt. The Prime Minister has appealed to the farmers' sense of patriotism, but a long season of strikes is almost a certainty; state employees have a 24-hour protest planned for Feb. 10. (See 10 things to do in Athens...
...vaccine fears persist in part because parents often notice the first autism symptoms around age 2, when many childhood vaccines are given. Most autism experts believe this is purely coincidental and that in many cases, parents have missed subtle signs of autism--like a baby's failure to point or use other gestures to communicate--that may have emerged before vaccination...
...system that meant not only segregation, but a denial of citizenship to a whole category of people. And so it was ironic that a key Israeli leader warned his people that the status quo on the territories conquered by Israel in 1967 amounts to the same thing. Barak's point was to warn that unless the Palestinians are given an independent state of their own, the world will eventually notice that their lives are controlled by an Israeli state that denies them citizenship, raising the specter of the sort of international isolation and sanctions that helped change South Africa...
Advocates of GM crops have also been quick to point out that China last year announced it would allow genetically modified rice. Comparing India and China is a favorite pastime of Indian economists and commentators. The country's attempts to outdo its northern neighbor are a national obsession. But in its hurry to reach double-digit growth, India is confronting a dilemma that has entangled China for years: what's more important, economic growth or human rights and the environment...