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...Paris, thousands of striking students have filled the boulevards, marching with signs and banners and chanting "all together!" Europeans are used to seeing students on the streets pushing for radical change, but these young people want to preserve the status quo. They're protesting government plans to reform their higher-education system - plans that in some cases place a greater share of the financial burden on students. European universities desperately need more money in order to compete with the United States, which spends over 2% of its GDP - more than any other developed country - on higher education. Many of Europe...
...specifically criticized the U.N. Security Council as “obsolete” and in need of reform and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its unequal distribution of voting power...
...carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China is the only one of the 37 nations in the's western-Pacific region that requires its citizens to pay for routine childhood immunizations. "During the past 20 years of reform, the government only focused on economic development," says Song Wenzhi, a professor at the Peking University Public Health Institute in Beijing. "It neglected social issues, such as health." No surprise, then, that a 2000 who study ranking the health systems of 191 member countries placed China 144th, behind Indonesia and Bangladesh...
...multimillion-dollar political slush fund and bank accounts linked to both Roh's campaign and those of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP), the probe is unprecedented in scope and scale. Political pundits are comparing the dragnet to Italy's "Clean Hands" crackdown of the early 1990s, when reform-minded investigators sent hundreds of businessmen, bureaucrats and prominent politicians to jail. GNP members are also under investigation: GNP lawmaker Choi Don Woong has already admitted to taking $8.3 million from...
...shocking to know that mental illness is such a problem in a country as developed as Japan. Asia consists of the fastest-developing nations in the world, but what is the meaning of development if it has so many ill effects? I am sure the story will propel reform. Sanghita Chatterjee Calcutta...