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...style, Mo Yan avoids stirring up the animosity of the country's ever vigilant censors any more than he needs to. Take his latest novel. With China's highly controversial one-child population-control policy as its topic, Frog traces the life of a midwife who witnesses forced late-term abortions, forced sterilization and other horrors, and it does so whimsically - in the form of four letters and a play. The midwife's struggle to reconcile her conflicting loyalties to party, family and patients forms the backbone of the narrative, which Mo Yan says had been percolating in his head...
...flattering. Britain's budget deficit - ?178 billion, according to the Treasury - is the largest as a proportion of GDP among G-7 nations. Unemployment stands at 2.46 million, a rate of 7.8%. That's not as bad as some pundits predicted, but the ranks of the long-term unemployed have swelled to levels not seen since 1997, and the number of people working part time because they're unable to find full-time employment has reached a new record. Although the pound has lost a quarter of its value against the dollar since 2008, Britain's global goods deficit actually...
...rally with about 2,000 troops at Bagram Air Base, and he plans to visit with wounded soldiers at the base hospital. "We plan to engage president Karzai," said National Security Advisor James Jones, in a briefing during the flight, "to make him understand that in this second term there are things he has to do." Among the issues on the table: government corruption, continued narcotrafficking, the reintegration of former Taliban insurgents into Afghan society and Karzai's appointments of "key government officials." (See pictures of life in the Afghan National Army...
...However, observers are unsure that either plan will deliver in the long run. "Going free doesn't make a lot of sense to me - it will provide a short-term publicity boost, and boost to readership, but it doesn't address any of the fundamental problems for newspapers. Print advertising is in decline, because advertisers increasingly believe it is less effective than digital," says George Brock, a professor of journalism at London's City University. Even the 50-pence-a-day model fails to convince Brock, who argues that a price cut works only as part of a long-term...
...left- and right-leaning governments have floated legislation in recent years intended to rein in online expression. In addition, an Italian court recently held three Google executives responsible for a video posted to YouTube that showed teenagers bullying an autistic classmate, sentencing each to a suspended six-month jail term. "The development of technology makes it more difficult for those who spend their days hiding the news," says Travaglio. "Every time they try to mark the cards, they'll know that somebody is watching and what they're trying to hide will be put online...