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...Gist:Global-health experts remain mindful of the terrible toll disease and war take on the world's children, but a lot less attention is paid to how many kids are claimed each year by accident and injury. Part of that is a numbers game: 10 million children ages 5 and under die annually of disease, while fewer than a million - 829,000 - die from accidents. Still, that's 2,270 children every day, all year, who won't get a chance to grow up. The World Health Organization (WHO) just released its first annual report on the problem, listing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save 829,000 Kids a Year | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

European nations have a deserved reputation as the world's greenest, with firm carbon caps and a commitment to renewable energy. But that's not the whole story. Eastern European nations, like summit host Poland, remain dependent on heavy industries and polluting power like coal. And lately, given the severe economic downturn, Europe has edged away from its leadership on climate change. On Dec. 11, even as the U.N. summit has begun to heat up, the E.U. will meet in Brussels to vote on its ambitious 20-20-20 plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases continent-wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Expect from the UN Climate-Change Summit | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Opted out of living in the Illinois Executive Mansion in Springfield, choosing to remain in Chicago instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rod Blagojevich | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Karzai government will have to end its corruption and close down the drug trade. There are plenty of other reforms necessary - the international humanitarian effort is a shabby, self-righteous mess; some of our NATO allies aren't carrying their share of the military burden - but the war will remain a bloody stalemate at best as long as jihadis come across the border from Pakistan and the drug trade flourishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aimless War | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...manpower and technology and matériel on war footing. Normal bureaucratic practice will not work; we need to reinvent procedures. It can be done overnight ... if you are flexible and in action mode." Even after the Mumbai carnage, he claims, the requisite political will and sense of urgency remain lacking. "We have such an incoherent and incapable leadership, and across all political parties." While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to understand the scale of the challenge, Sahni says, "he doesn't seem to carry the weight with his own Cabinet colleagues. And the irrational opposition has been blocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botched Mumbai Arrest Highlights India's Intel Failures | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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