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...miles upstream from the regional capital of Liuku, has been leveled and its residents relocated to higher ground. The project was officially carried out under the national "New Socialist Countryside" program. Villagers were compensated for the loss of fields that will be flooded. Earth movers, laborers and survey teams from the Sinohydro company, a member of the consortium that wants to dam the river, crawl over the site...
...assassinated Pim Fortuyn's eponymous party in the Netherlands into the political mainstream. Last October, the Swiss People's Party won the largest single share of the vote - 29% - in a general election using a campaign poster depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag. Surveys show that even the U.S., a nation built on immigration, is now more hostile to immigration than at any time in its history. The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Survey found that a majority in every country except Japan, South Korea and the Palestinian territories wanted immigration reduced...
This attitude riles advocates for modern contraception, who maintain there is nothing anti-Filipino about birth control. Indeed, a survey commissioned by the Philippine Legislators' Committee for Population and Development found the majority of Filipinos are actually in favor of it. In their 2007 study, 90% of respondents said they'd vote for a political candidate who supported the use of modern contraception. And many women don?t see birth control as anti-Catholic, either. Lourdes Osil, a mother of seven who joined the lawsuit, says family planning does not violate her Catholic beliefs. "I don?t think...
...trickle of new drugs became a flood after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Details of America's medicated wars come from the mental-health surveys the Army has conducted each year since the war began. If the surveys are right, many U.S. soldiers experience a common but haunting mismatch in combat life: while nearly two-thirds of the soldiers surveyed in Iraq in 2006 knew someone who had been killed or wounded, fewer than 15% knew for certain that they had actually killed a member of the enemy in return. That imbalance between seeing the price...
...Burnout and compassion fatigue" are rising among such personnel, and there have been "recent psychiatric evacuations" of Army mental-health workers from Iraq, the 2007 survey says. Soldiers are often stationed at outposts so isolated that follow-up visits with counselors are difficult. "In a perfect world," admits Nash, who has just retired from the Navy, "you would not want to rely on medications as your first-line treatment, but in deployed settings, that is often all you have...