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...whether the state's or their own. The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, last year called homeopathy "nothing but a placebo." Nicole Priollaud, a spokeswoman for the French Academy of Medicine, says: "For us, it is clear homeopathy has no therapeutic effect." But Dr. Dominique Jeulin, president of France's National Union of Homeopathic Doctors, thinks that position is based on simple prejudice. "In France, like the rest of Europe, the debate over homeopathy has always been emotional," she says. At the moment, the skeptics are in the ascendant in France. Two years ago, the state-run health insurer...
...Some of Venezuela's supply reduction has resulted less from strategy than from political upheaval; a 2002-2003 strike by workers and managers at Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly who opposed Ch?vez didn't help, and and analysts believe that the fiery leader's recent actions to exert more state control over drilling projects has reduced investment. (Venezuela insists it is producing up to 3.5 million barrels a day, though many analysts put it at little over 2.5 million.) But the bottom line is that since 2000, the last time Ch?vez hosted an OPEC gathering, the cartel's daily...
...Zedong, then helped revive the Catholic Church after the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; in Xian. One of four Chinese bishops invited to a conference at the Vatican last fall by Pope Benedict XVI (the Chinese government barred them from attending), Li grew his diocese--part of China's state-run church, which does not officially recognize Rome's authority--to 60 parishes and 20,000 members. Steadfastly loyal to the Holy See, he pushed for reconciliation between Beijing and the Vatican. "We publicly pray for the Pope," he said, "and have no reticence about saying the church...
...before his January inauguration that "the foreign companies have to be subordinate to the Bolivian people." But Mares and other experts warn that the fact that Morales sent armed troops into the country's gas and oil fields this week - and that he brought in auditors from Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly, Petroleos de Venezuela, to seize and examine the books of the foreign energy firms operating in Bolivia - may not have been the most tactful thing to do before sitting down with Brazil and Argentina...
...future. Schieffer identified the U.S. as the region’s strongest ally. He also gave the US credit for some of the changes occurring in Japan. He described the extraordinary political developments of the last few years, such as the unprecedented privatization of Japan’s state-run postal service, as among the accomplishments of outgoing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi, who is set to end his term this fall, is leader of the Liberal Democratic Party. But Schieffer attributed some of Koizumi’s succcess to an imitation of American political strategy. Koizumi?...