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...different from his previous post as health minister. He emphasized that his tenure as minister was characterized by the use of scientific knowledge to guide policy. “For me, it’s all grounded in my firm belief that science and scholarship, not economic interest or short-term political gain, that will make the world a better place,” Frenk said. Although Frenk said that government styles of management tend to be more “vertical” and top-down as opposed to a more “collegial” style...
...indexes those that are useful, according to the company.) The Cuil team generated so much buzz for its venture that it managed to raise some $33 million in financing. But the acid test of any search site is the results it generates, and for now, anyway, Cuil falls way short of the industry's leaders, and even, for that matter, of many startups...
...United Nations norm is 222. The Intelligence Bureau, responsible for internal intelligence-gathering, has a sum total of 3,500 field operatives - for a country of 1.1 billion. Finally, the security establishment cannot go on blaming a "foreign hand" for these attacks. The profusion of such attacks within a short time frame cannot have been possible without local recruits. India must now face up to a brood of homegrown Islamist terrorists feeding off popular and growing Muslim resentment toward the purported injustices and atrocities of the Hindu majority. Indeed, the past three terror attacks have been in states ruled...
...Paris meeting in March between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain resembled a warm embrace, Friday's hookup of Sarkozy and Barack Obama fell just short of hot love. After trading compliments and endearments during an hour-long press conference in the Elys?e Palace, the pair wound their session down with Sarkozy coming as close as possible to endorsing Obama for the U.S. presidency without actually doing...
...know anyone who doesn't want to spend more time in Paris, but time just got too short," Obama responded. Then, taking up Sarkozy's remark that both men are the sons of immigrants who'd risen to the top of their respective societies, Obama noted there may be more similarities between the two nations anymore than differences. "I do think President Sarkozy's election indicates the degree to which the West is opening up to people of all walks of life," Obama said. In that manner, he noted, Sarkozy's own election was "the essence of the American dream...