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...city-state's ?lite, as well as hawkers and taxi drivers?gathered last week on the lawns of the stately colonial mansion that houses the offices of Singapore's President and Prime Minister. But despite his reputation for formality, the man taking over as Singapore's new premier, 52-year-old Lee Hsien Loong, repeatedly flashed a broad smile as he strode to the dais to take the oath of office. And that surprising grin kept popping up throughout the swearing...
...share cell samples with other researchers so that they can ascertain just what he's injecting. "Something very interesting may be happening here, but what's needed is independent validation," says Dr. James Guest of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami, the world's premier research center on spinal injuries...
...Case in point: even though international estimates put Henan's HIV patient count at more than 1 million, a provincial health official told a Bangkok AIDS conference last month that there were only about 50,000 sufferers. Despite a decree from Premier Wen Jiabao that poor peasants should receive free treatment, a dozen HIV-positive villagers told TIME they had never received any medicine. Last week, 130 Henan peasants congregated in front of a local mayor's office to demand treatment. Li Dan also lodged a formal complaint with the Shangqiu health bureau asking for his orphan school...
Even the hotel’s premier dinner restaurant, Rialto, got some Democratic spirit, offering up new menu items like the Ballot burger, Liberty lobster, and Revolution salad—complete with red tomatoes, white croutons, and blue cheese...
...Labor's standing among local Israelis. Has party leader Mark Latham alienated the influential Jewish community? Whittaker's asked to get a journalist to check it out. What about a response to the federal government's suggestion that it might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike Rann opposes plans for a dump there? "Rann deserves a pasting," is the verdict. It's decided to put more journalists onto the possible outbreak of citrus disease in Queensland. "Could be the biggest disaster in Australian rural history," says Mitchell. But the best contender for the splash...