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...Specifically, he wants President Hu to support his efforts next week to have the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, refer Iran to the Security Council over failure to disclose aspects of its nuclear program. That's a little like asking the glue factory manager to punish the guy who shoots horses: China imports roughly half of the 6.7 million barrels of oil it uses every day, and Iran is one of its biggest suppliers. China feels little threat from Iran's nuclear program, but UN sanctions against Iran could cause Beijing a great deal of discomfort...
...totally against national law," a member of the State Family Planning Commission's secretariat in Beijing told TIME. "We are investigating the situation now." A public statement from the commission said that central and provincial authorities have cautioned Linyi officials to follow national regulations, vowing to punish lawbreakers...
...Arafat; after gunmen stormed his family compound, dragged him into the street in his pajamas and shot him 23 times; in Gaza City. Amid claims of responsibility by militant Palestinian group Popular Resistance Committees, which criticized Arafat as corrupt, Abbas put his security forces on heightened alert, vowing to punish the killers...
...persona with policies. In addition to the vat increase, she has suggested weakening job-protection laws and reforming union wage-bargaining practices. Trouble is, the spd owes much of its unpopularity to an attempt to introduce just such measures. Germans seem to want reform, but are determined to punish reformers. "As voters, we may believe we can handle uncomfortable truths," says Eckhard Jesse, professor of political science at Chemnitz Technical University in eastern Germany, "but when it actually comes to listening and accepting them, we shy away. Although it was extremely courageous for Merkel to come out and say that...
...system is too open to manipulation and needs reform, says the 4,000-member American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. The Semmelweis Society agrees; its 85 members are mostly doctors who claim to be victims of "malicious peer review," in which the process is used to damage competitors or punish whistle-blowers. Support for reform is also widespread among doctors who work in patient-safety policymaking, says Robert Wachter, co-author of Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. "We need as transparent and objective a system as possible," he says...