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Vietnam's pro-girl campaign depends on changing the attitudes of its own post-war baby boom - nearly 60% of the population is under 30 - who are now busy starting families. It's an uphill battle, but the country's previous success at changing attitudes is encouraging. Thirty years ago, most Vietnamese had a strong preference for families of four and five children. That has now been replaced with a general desire for smaller families, enough so that the official two-child limit has been eased. Sultan Aziz, the U.N. Population Fund's Asia-Pacific director, says Vietnam might still...
...post-war era, virtually every Hollywood director, from George Stevens and Fred Zinnemann on the A list, to Preston Sturges on the way down and Ed Wood who was never up, directed a Western. It was the new film noir - you could call it the anti-noir, trading claustrophobic darkness for blinding light in the wide-open spaces. But it was also a continuation of noir's fascination with the haunted man, the ordinary guy who'd been scarred by violent experiences. It spoke to returning veterans from World War II, young men from cities and farms who'd been...
...Maliki told senior aides that he wants to look at ways to change Order 17, a law from early in the post-war occupation of Iraq that some believe provides expatriate contractors immunity from Iraqi prosecution...
...Stauffenberg played an important role in the military resistance against the Nazi regime and in the Bundeswehr's [the post-war German military's] self-perception," a Ministry spokesman told TIME last June. "A sincere and respectable depiction of the events of the 20th of July and of Stauffenberg is therefore very much in Germany's interest. Tom Cruise, with his Scientology background, is not the right person for this...
...Vietnam's post-war generation is increasingly wired, as the Communist Party attempts to foster economic growth and high-tech skills while at the same time clinging to power. The country currently has an estimated 16 million Internet users - one in five of the population - compared with just 200,000 who were online seven years ago. Three million of them are bloggers, most on foreign-hosted clients including Yahoo, which is where the fake government blogs appeared. Internet access in Vietnam is growing more than 10 times faster than the rate in China...