Word: third world
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...Today, as the BJP heads toward what it is convinced will be its third term in government, the doomsayers' more apocalyptic predictions have proved unfounded. India has not become a Hindu state and is still the world's largest democracy. Its press is still remarkably free and its judiciary by and large as independent and outspoken as ever. Peace has broken out with China, and even seems possible with nuclear archrival Pakistan. Moreover, India's economy is booming. Its growth rate has passed 7%, the stock market is on a roll and foreign-exchange reserves exceed $100 billion...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...service sector and have poor pay. Newly created jobs will not be enough to counterbalance the large number of old ones that have taken a one-way trip to Asia. Unless the hemorrhage of well-paid work to foreign countries is stopped, the U.S. is heading toward Third World status. EDWARD J. MASON El Lago, Texas...
That so many Africans risk so much to reach European shores proves how strong a magnet the Continent is to people in the developing world. But the magnet is unwilling: though Europeans are regularly horrified by tales of yet more drowned or suffocated would-be immigrants, that doesn't mean they are rejoicing when the immigrants make it. The irony is that in the long run, Europe needs immigrant workers to counter its low birthrates, keep its economy primed and help defuse its looming pension crisis. But most Europeans haven't yet meshed the need for immigrants with a willingness...
...video monitor, two small marmosets - tree-dwelling South American monkeys with white ear tufts - cling tightly to each other, looking terrified. A third writhes in pain, postsurgery, on the floor of its cage; others have raw and bloody head wounds that seem crudely stitched up. The animals appear in a 21-minute exposé called Cutting Edge, shot for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in one of Cambridge University's neuroscience research labs. The monkeys' brains had been deliberately damaged in experiments meant to simulate the symptoms of stroke and Parkinson's disease. Important research that...