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...ransom is a criminal act that the police must pursue. There is no motivation to investigate a case of missing children. This is just one of the issues Singh hopes will change when a sweeping police-reform proposal he pushed through India's Supreme Court last September takes root...
...cold hillside at the edge of western Wales' Cambrian Mountains, more than a thousand saplings, all planted in the last couple of months, are taking root. The trees are local - beech, ash, oak, alder and willow, among others - but the money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service...
...Arab state, with Jerusalem to be kept under international control. The Arabs of Palestine and its neighboring states rejected the plan, focusing on its implications for their own people rather than on the horrors visited on the Jews by Europeans, and they went to war to prevent it taking root...
...Pope hardly qualifies as a great uniter if that means "seeking ties with only those who invoke the name of a single god." In matters of faith and religion, prescriptive morality should be avoided, as it is the root cause of hostility and divisiveness. There can be no divine right vested in anyone to pronounce the final word and the ultimate truth. Reason cannot be attributed only to Christianity; it equally informs Hinduism and Buddhism. Distinguishing between different religions on the basis of reason shows a narrow understanding of other faiths. Gyan Ranjan Saha Calcutta Pope Benedict XVI's initiative...
...society haunted by decades of political turmoil and reeling from wild economic growth and rampant corruption, the concept of the law as a way to settle disputes or win justice remains a novelty. Still, over the past two decades, the law and the legal system have begun to take root. China's leaders, including President Hu Jintao, speak often of the importance of "administering the country according to law." The legal profession and legal education have mushroomed; China's government has enacted thousands of new laws; and major institutions like the legislatures and the courts have been strengthened and professionalized...