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...total savings. High levels of government and business savings also contribute. China's central bank, for example, holds more than $1 trillion in foreign currencies and securities. Moreover, the widely held view of China as a nation of supersavers appears to be increasingly out of touch with reality-a shift that has dramatic implications for the global economy...
...inquisition by MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, his opponents sought to highlight splits opening within Labour ranks as its pols jockey for position in anticipation of the Prime Minister's looming departure. But it was a deeper gulf that yawned as Blair used the occasion to shift Britain's Iraq strategy, announcing a planned reduction in troop levels by 1,500 over the coming months from some 7,100 at present, with the aim of pushing overall numbers below 5,000 by the end of the year. Answering unspoken accusations that this signaled a rift with Washington...
...weeks.The rest of the term will, if all goes according to plan, maintain this frenetic pace. March will focus on reforms to CUE course evaluations, although making senior common rooms a better resource for students and expanding house renovations will also be emphasized. In April, the theme will shift to mental health, which will include calendar reform to move fall term exams before winter break. May will consist of planning for the summer, which Petersen and Sundquist plan to spend in Cambridge working on UC business.While we appreciate the UC president and vice president’s eagerness, we feel...
...Shuwetij cannot remember the last night no patients arrived in the emergency room of his small hospital in eastern Baghdad. Just two years ago, when the things were more normal, Shuwetij or other doctors working night shifts would pass many evenings snoozing or watching television as nothing happened. Not any more. Now Shuwetij, the senior doctor on staff at the al-Kindy Teaching Hospital, works the overnight shift most every night. Usually about five or six patients arrive in Shuwetij's emergency room every evening. Most have gunshot wounds. Others have burns and lacerations from explosions. Shuwetij rarely asks what...
...schemes to wean farmers off growing drug crops like coca. But support for that aid in the Democrat-dominated U.S. Congress is far from a done deal. Several U.S. lawmakers had already expressed reservations about the Bush administration's 2008 budget request for Colombia, which they had hoped would shift its focus to supporting social programs rather than continuing a militaristic approach. Instead, the Bush administration's request is 76% military. With the paramilitary scandal now touching Uribe's cabinet, U.S. lawmakers will be even more wary of digging deep into American pockets...