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...massive American presence. They point out that Iraq's political leadership has failed to use the relative calm to engineer any real reconciliation between the majority Shi'ites and the Sunnis. While U.S. troops have battled al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Anbar and Diyala, the Iraqi Parliament has made little progress on critical legislation in more than a year. And partly because of massive government corruption, improvements in basic services like electricity, water and fuel have lagged behind security gains. Baghdad gets an average of eight hours of electricity a day, about half the prewar level. So while there...
...doesn't make the moral questions easier. And though I hope that stem-cell research will yield untold benefits, my excitement is muted - perhaps because I was a research chemist for more than 40 years. Only when we see giant corporations risk their dollars on research will we see progress. Joseph K. Valaitis, BRECKSVILLE, OHIO...
...wants power and for that he will do anything," says Dhirubhai Gajera, one of the BJP rebels, who spent a recent Saturday afternoon campaigning for his seat in Surat, a city of some 4 million people. "He overstates what he has done for this state in terms of progress, and even where there has been progress it has gone to the rich, not the poor...
...order for such progress to be made, education is paramount: Consciousness of the issues at hand has to be created. Raising awareness is a process in which we can all participate, whether by joining a human rights organization on campus or just speaking to your friends over dinner. Student groups in Cuba are risking persecution just to promote awareness, organizing peaceful demonstrations calling for freedom of expression. Their courage is inspiring, especially considering the recent arrests of three of their leaders...
...responsibility for climate action. (The Kyoto Protocol, whose 10th anniversary is Tuesday, had required only industrialized nations to make mandatory cuts in carbon gas emissions, on the principle that those nations had created most of the problem.) Also, the delegation of the United States - long the chief spoiler of progress toward a global emissions-curbing framework while erstwhile climate-change skeptic President George W. Bush had been at the helm - has been notably restrained so far. "I'm convinced the Administration is coming here in good faith," says David Doniger, policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council...