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...markers of the city's entrepreneurial spirit - are starting from scratch. Austin is emerging as one of the first pockets of the country where people are getting back to work, showing that even in this dreary economic environment, job creation can happen - and illustrating how it will eventually take root around the nation...
...city that has seen two major recessions in the past decade and where the social stigma of failing to get ahead is exacerbated by glaring income inequality, financial hardship is thought to be the root cause of such tragedies. Two years ago, a study co-authored by the University of Hong Kong and the University of Macau found that a deranged sense of compassion was common - parents killed their offspring to spare them from destitution and believed it their right to do so. "We take our children as our property," says Fernando Cheung, former head of the Hong Kong legislature...
...Central American country's biggest scourges: corruption. "Corruption and impunity are part of the perverse way our political, economic and social systems function," Portillo said in 2002. A year later, he even proposed letting the U.N. establish a commission in Guatemala to help the country?s fledgling judicial institutions root out the sleaze...
...Prius incident is one of two episodes of sudden acceleration that Toyota is scrambling to respond to. The company has engaged a respected engineering consultancy, Exponent, which has a staff of more than 900 engineers, to see if it can discover the root cause for the runaway cars...
...international human-rights groups are calling on Nigeria to prosecute and punish those responsible. "It's time to draw a line in the sand," Human Rights Watch researcher Corinne Dufka said in a statement. "The authorities need to protect these communities, bring the perpetrators to book and address the root causes of violence." But even if that happens, the violence is unlikely to end altogether...