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...privy to the complexities of Middle Eastern cuisine, it may come as a surprise to learn that falafel is quite the controversial food. Falafel is popular across the Middle Eastern world: being vegetarian, inexpensive, and neutral kosher-wise, it makes an ideal meal. However, the politics of falafel run rampant, with many countries claiming to be the rightful home of the popular snack. Here in Cambridge, however, you can order your falafel, hold the politics. FM brings you a round-up of great Middle Eastern eateries in the Boston area...
...Underreporting is also rampant among China's 100 million-strong migrant population, which relies on health care from unlicensed fly-by-night clinics that rarely report epidemiological figures to local CDCs. The who estimates that one-third of China's measles and tuberculosis cases are never reported, in part because they disproportionately affect migrant workers. Without access to proper health care, these itinerant communities are virtual petri dishes of disease. Recent outbreaks of measles and Japanese encephalitis in the southern province of Guangdong?where SARS first appeared?are believed to have originated in this so-called "floating population." An article...
...caf?s, noodle joints and bare-bulb fishermen's shacks outside the palace, many Maldivians tell a different story. Here the social indices that matter are one of the world's highest divorce rates and rampant heroin addiction indicated by 1,000 convicted dealers in a capital city of 86,000. Although everyone acknowledges tourism's success, many Maldivians?and international relief workers?charge that it has made multimillionaires of Gayoom's friends while official figures show that 42% of Maldivians earn less than $1 a day. And there's a hot fury reserved for Gayoom himself, whom they and Amnesty...
...fits-all" ftaa. Connolly and other experts call that bunk. "You can't treat a free-trade agreement like a Chinese menu," says a Latin diplomat involved in the negotiations. The U.S. is especially opposed to such "flexibility," seeing it as an excuse for Brazil and China to perpetuate rampant piracy. Hence all the pre-Miami drama. After the Cancún shock, the U.S. rushed to peel off some of the 14 G-22 members in Latin America. The region does almost half its foreign trade with the U.S. - and Brazilian officials say they suspect the U.S. of threatening...
...There are still plenty of economic problems, including a bloated public sector that employs more than a million Sri Lankans and a tax system so riddled with loopholes that evasion is rampant. Of about 32,000 registered businesses in the country, only some 9,000 file tax returns. "Paying corporate income tax in this country is almost voluntary," says Jeremy Carter, the top representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sri Lanka. The combination of high governmental spending on defense and the civil service along with a low revenue base meant that national debt had swelled to alarming levels...