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...difficult as it may seem, China should look for help from Taiwan. The island has institutions that protect and nurture ideas. It is a place where people don't have to be afraid of holding unpopular opinions. Most importantly, Taiwan has a fully functioning democracy...
...government] dealings with the public." Nigeria is said to have "deteriorating institutions, including a serious security problem." South Africa, where 28% of firms see corruption as a "severe problem," is said to be hobbled by "the business costs of crime and violence and the unreliability of police services to protect from crime...
...idea for a World Heritage List was hatched in the late 1950s, when the ancient Abu Simbel temples in Egypt were being threatened by a small dam. Frustrated by the Egyptian government's lack of action to protect the ancient buildings, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), launched a worldwide campaign that saved the temples by relocating them to higher ground. Today, the process is a good deal more official than that - almost like the Oscars of the environment. Any country is eligible to send in a list of nominees for protection. The candidates are then independently...
...killed to feed hungry troops. Instead, many animals moved to isolated swamp areas, and the southern armies had policies against shooting wildlife. Zebras and buffalo suffered drastic reductions, but elephants, ostriches, lions and leopards are thriving. Now Fay and Elkan are working with local authorities to establish policies that protect natural resources and attract travelers to see the migration. "Definitely," says Elkan, "tourism can happen here...
Questions about the intellect of black and brown Americans sadly extend from lagging SAT scores to the halls of Congress. And the question making the rounds among fellow Democrats was whether Reyes was up for the fight to protect civil liberties against government agents listening to phone calls. He did not help himself with a botched interview in which he failed to get his Shi'ites and Sunnis in the right terrorism groups. That slipup got lots of attention, including a lengthy article in the Washington Post. Reyes says the interview was a "screwup." His lack of guile...