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...Only in a country that eight years ago was considered a failed state could that be called progress. But kidnappings are down ten-fold in the past four years, and the annual murder rate has dropped from 28,000 to 17,000. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos claims that heroin production has been eliminated in the country, once the world's third largest producer, and that coca eradication programs have drastically cut production. The economy is growing at 7%, inflation is low and exports are up. Uribe's popularity has soared to 73% as a result. "The major success...
...theory that because watches in every pocket and clocks in every factory and railroad station had stimulated in people an acute awareness of time passing, that itchy new awareness had in turn stimulated the popular impatience with the status quo, and the new demands for still speedier progress...
...Institute of Mental Health, said the state-of-the-art approaches that the $100 million gift will pay for represent “our best chance to understand the biological underpinnings of these devastating illnesses.” “The extraordinary partnership... creates new hope for significant progress that can ultimately be translated into much needed new treatments,” he said in an e-mailed statement. —Laurence H. M. Holland contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...University President Derek C. Bok, who addressed the practice in his 2003 book “Universities in the Marketplace.” “Unfortunately, in their zeal to bring more revenue to their universities, technology transfer officers have occasionally acted...in ways that threaten to slow progress rather than promote it,” he wrote. But the white paper’s supporters say it will facilitate the process by which inventions in the academic world create tangible changes in the real one. “The emphasis here is on getting inventions...
...argument overlap in many chapters and try the patience of the reader. Sen’s main argument is carefully presented and defended throughout the book, but could be just as persuasive at half the length.Nevertheless, the questions that Sen poses are essential if there is to be any progress in combating the senseless and seemingly intractable violence in the world today. As Sen argues at the conclusion of his book, the end of violence is not near, but that there are practical steps that people can take.Sen believes that fostering debate about identity and the choices of allegiance that...