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...world over. And yet when it comes to the headline measure by which a nation is often gauged - the effectiveness of its political system - this whale is reduced to a minnow. Witness the resignation of Yasuo Fukuda after a lackluster year as Prime Minister. In terms of political reform, Fukuda was a failure; so was his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, and if there are any who have high hopes for Fukuda's likely successors, they are keeping them mightily well hidden...
...about 300,000 to 400,000 Poles to remain in Britain - still a huge number to have settled in just a few years. "A lot of these migrants were not coming to build a new life for themselves," says Philip Whyte, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. "Many were overskilled relative to the jobs they were carrying out in the U.K. They were coming to get a financial...
...groups--which have some 16,000 members in the U.S.--suddenly stings a bit more. Who cares about the perfect mushroom when more people are going hungry? The movement's leaders are responding, however, by putting politics back at the center of Slow Food's agenda and calling for reform of a global agro-industry they say has failed farmers and eaters alike. "How did we get to a place where it is considered élitist to have food that is healthy for you?" asks Katrina Heron, head of the San Francisco-based Slow Food Nation...
...Georgia Schools Earn an F The Clayton County, Ga., school system became the first in the U.S. in almost 40 years to lose its accreditation, six months after a regional agency demanded that the Atlanta-area district reform its dysfunctional school board. Many colleges require a diploma from an accredited high school, leaving 50,000 Clayton County students in limbo unless the district turns itself around by next fall...
...election issue. He got Senator John McCain to attend the Livestrong Cancer Summit earlier this year. McCain, a skin-cancer survivor, committed to increasing spending but not to a specific amount. Senator Barack Obama has committed to doubling the budget for fighting cancer as part of a broader reform of health care. Certainly the frail, failing Senator Ted Kennedy's dramatic speech at the Democratic Convention, coming in the midst of his battle with brain cancer, underscored the point...