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...accurate reflection of the culture in Chinese education. A 15-year-old friend from Shanghai studying IGSCE had such a wide scope of knowledge about economics that even he was teaching his teacher. I was impressed by how boldly you argued the case for the much beleaguered Chinese education system, how important it is to the economic welfare, as well as describing its destruction of creativity. In this increasingly globalized world, there can be silver linings to some harsh approaches that China enforces upon its inhabitants. Damien Chin Tze Ming, OXFORD, ENGLAND
...China's rampant development has produced a legacy of terrible pollution, and China gives its citizens no voice in what happens to their neighborhoods. Our system may be inconvenient, but it allows our society to balance individual rights with the benefits of development. As you noted, that's one thing China can learn from us. Will Ashenmacher Minneapolis...
...Since 2007, the Pentagon's Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 people employed by HTS, a number that is increasing rapidly. On the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, their job is to gather information and provide commanders with a greater understanding of the local population, reducing the need for lethal force by helping the Army determine the needs of the community, according to Steve Fondacaro, the project manager at HTS. Secretary of State Robert Gates has publicly praised...
...dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet - to prosecute Mapuche militants. The measure, used by Pinochet to hound political opponents, allows fewer pretrial rights for defendants, who can be accused by anonymous and masked witnesses. It also imposes longer prison sentences and augments the powers of the police and judicial system - never a comfortable prospect in a country that is still shaking the ironfisted ghosts of the Pinochet regime. "This law is an abomination," says Richard Caifal, a Chilean human-rights lawyer, "and the government is using it in a discriminating way, only against Mapuches...
Last month, the report from the Task Force on University Libraries recommended that the university restructure its “labyrinthine” library system and suggested that it could no longer hope to retain a fully comprehensive collection...