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...long been theater in Pakistan, and the current spectacle of a waning President and a crusading Chief Justice has the country enthralled. Three months ago Musharraf accused Chaudhry of misuse of office, leveling charges of nepotism and corruption. Chaudhry denies wrongdoing and refuses to go. The resulting furor threatens Musharraf's increasingly tenuous hold on power. Musharraf says he's the only leader capable of reining in the Islamic militants that threaten Pakistan, but his detractors claim that his stranglehold on power has sidelined moderates and delivered Pakistan's government into the hands of an extremist minority. Chaudhry just wants...
...voluntary. A 2005 study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions found that at most companies, less than half of employees participated. That's where the carrots and sticks come in. While employers like Kaiser Permanente dangle cash incentives for workers who submit to health evaluations, others, like AstraZeneca, threaten higher premiums for not taking part. Scotts Miracle-Gro has gone so far as to fire a worker for smoking; he has since filed a federal lawsuit charging discrimination. Worthington CEO McConnell says he would never fire a worker for poor health, maybe because he's no Lance Armstrong himself...
...H5N1 strain of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been jumping from birds to people for years. The fear is that if bird flu manages to combine with a strain of human influenza and form a superstrain that easily spreads from person to person, it could threaten the lives of millions. Preventing a pandemic thus depends on tracking and controlling infected poultry, and nowhere is that challenge more daunting than in Indonesia. Home to 234 million people and 1.3 billion poultry, it has recorded more human deaths (79) from bird flu than any other country. H5N1 is found...
...their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month. Yet the road to where we are today has left Harvard and the Faculty deeply scarred and has exposed serious flaws within FAS that threaten to undermine the new curriculum just as they did the soon-to-be-defunct Core...
...obstacle comes from Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin told reporters this week that Russia might again target countries in Europe that accept such a system. "If a part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States appears in Europe and, in the opinion of our military specialists, will threaten us, then we will have to take appropriate steps in response," Putin said in comments released Monday by the Kremlin. "What kind of steps? We will have to have new targets in Europe...