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...overthrow the landlord class. The current crop of Communist leaders is aware that rural unrest could spark political mayhem, especially when cell phones and the Internet can connect citizens with the click of a button. In some cases, such as in Panlong, local officials have resorted to violence to suppress the uprisings, which has only incited more rage. In response to the rising furor, President Hu Jintao announced plans last month to give billions of dollars in central-government aid to farmers. "If farmers are rich, then the country will be prosperous," Hu said. "If villages are stable, then...
...grasp of a key immune system protein,” according to a press release. Gold-based drugs have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. De Wall and DeDecker’s research began in 2001, with the goal of finding new drugs to suppress autoimmune response, a reaction by the body against its own cells or tissues. Instead, they “discovered a biochemical mechanism that may help explain how an old drugs works,” DeDecker said in the press release. “This previously unknown allosteric mechanism may help resolve...
...Administration has backed Musharraf on the basis that he is cooperating in the war on terror - even if not to the extent the U.S. demands - and that the alternatives are worse. But many secular liberals in Pakistan complain that Musharraf brandishes the jihadi threat to maintain military rule and suppress Pakistan's main moderate political parties, quite a far cry from the democratic values trumpeted by the Bush Administration. The jihadist element has long been nurtured by the Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s (later helping the Taliban to seize...
...tended to move the pendulum sideways more often than the group told merely to keep it steady. Why? "Because thinking about not having it move [sideways] activates the very muscles that move it that way," Hayes and Smith write. To be sure, cognitive therapy doesn't ask people to suppress negative thoughts, but it does ask us to challenge them, to fix them...
...advocate of interfaith dialogue. Eck suggested that Ramadan’s criticisms of American foreign policy, and his suggestion that certain prominent French Jewish intellectuals were inappropriately biased toward Israel, might explain the revocation of his visa. “If we’re going to start suppressing the kinds of speech Tariq Ramadan has engaged in, we’re going to have to suppress a great deal of the speech that’s very important to the political debate inside the US,” Jaffer said. Jaffer accused the government of “using...