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Pope John Paul II was the first pontiff ever to visit Brazil, and he was hugely popular here. But each time he visited his adoring flock, he came in the knowledge that his Church was losing followers and influence at a frightening rate. Between 1980 and 2000, the proportion of...
In foreign policy he is equally assertive. He revealed, for example, that he intends to propose Kazakhstan for the presidency of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Gone are the days when Russia was content to be in the audience rather than onstage. And by playing along...
“I have arranged a tutorial for myself,” said Faust, who is dean of Radcliffe, to the audience, which was filled with a large proportion of women.
Nonagenarians like Okamura are hardly unusual in today's graying Japan, where 20.2% of the population is older than 65 - the world's highest proportion of that demographic. But few of Okamura's peers are as healthy as he is, and as the proportion of elderly in Japan increases - it...
Change is slow, however, because this situation perpetuates itself. Young researchers shooting for tenure must publish their best work in the most prestigious journals, and a journal’s prestige depends in turn on the research it publishes. The resulting chicken-and-egg problem for any new journal creates...