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...years. The present military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), killed an estimated 10,000 nonviolent democracy demonstrators when it came to power in 1988. The SLORC has been repeatedly condemned by the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Australia for its rampant human rights abuses and is widely considered one of the most oppressive regimes in the world...
Those demons have been running rampant in recent weeks. While air bags have saved more than 1,600 lives and averted thousands of crippling injuries since 1986, public attention has lately fastened on the fact that the devices, which bang open at speeds of up to 200 m.p.h., can be lethal as well. Since 1991, 51 victims--including 31 children--have been killed by air bags that slammed into them in low-speed crashes that might have been otherwise survivable. Many of the victims were not wearing seat belts. Among those particularly vulnerable: infants and small children placed...
...Another is an urgently needed overhaul of tax collection. The complexity and inefficiency of the current system have scared off foreign and domestic investment, and Moscow's failure to take in adequate revenues has jeopardized its eligibility for loans from the International Monetary Fund. At a more fundamental level, rampant criminality threatens to undermine the Russian people's confidence in reform and in democracy itself, and could serve as a pretext for the reimposition of stultifying state controls. The best remedy for corruption is less intervention in the economy by the state, and more protection of property rights and enforcement...
...treatment unavailable in their home state. After her death at age nine in 1976, he started the Valerie Fund, a money-raising endeavor that has spawned New Jersey's largest network of pediatric- oncology centers. "We wish we didn't have to grow, but unfortunately the disease runs rampant," he says. "We hope someday to go out of business...
...seven years, people are celebrating in Budapest, and even in Boston. To any thoughtful person, however, such celebrations are more an occasion for reflection than for pure rejoicing. The struggles over the memory of 1956 show that layers and layers of history must be peeled away and dealt with. Rampant nationalism and anti-Semitism in Hungary, as in the rest of Eastern Europe, predate the communist past, and so does a system of privilege based on wealth...