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...India and China have argued against enforcing strict emission controls in their countries, on the grounds that these could hinder their economic growth and prompt a global economic slowdown. But the new IEA report says working with China and India on alternative energy sources and curbing emissions is a matter of global urgency...
...lenders from sharing revenues, mandated disclosure of university-lender relationships, restricted how “preferred lenders” should be chosen, and banned gifts from lenders to university officials. Since the Education Department explicitly stipulated that their new federal law will supersede state law, Cuomo’s strict code of conduct may be nullified. Indeed, many lenders support the Education Department’s regulation because it is weaker and pushed for the federal supremacy clause so that they could avoid Cuomo’s code while making it seem like they were proactively reforming themselves.The discrepancy...
Musharraf "thinks his vision was right, and that he has failed merely by not being strict enough," Masood says. "He thinks that if he has 100% control over the lives of the people of Pakistan, he will be able to manipulate and control events in such a way that he can achieve both stability and economic progress. But by these measures he is only reinforcing failure, because this vision has not worked so far. By pursuing the same agenda with the same methods, but with more vigor, he is only going to cause more problems...
...main security agencies. The Security Service (better known as MI5 and tasked with internal security), and its sister organization, the Secret Intelligence Service (also called MI6 and concerned with external intelligence), have set up their own websites and now advertise openly for new recruits. But this new transparency has strict limits. Much of the agencies' work is covert and British spymasters seldom venture into the full glare of public attention...
...much of Asia, Vietnam's Confucian-based society prizes male heirs to carry on the family name and care for parents in their old age. And like China, Vietnam has a history of strict population control. Until recently, couples were forbidden to have more than two children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with...