Word: vitalness
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...Some 20 years from now, how will the country remain productive? Who will take care of the boomers when they reach their 80s? As hard as it may be for Japan, a country proud of its traditions and its homogenous society, immigration must be increased to keep the economy vital and growing. By making such tough but farsighted policy changes today, Japan will give itself a chance to avoid another lost decade...
Technology companies and foundations are also joining the effort to support community health workers. Mobile-phone giant Ericsson is empowering these workers with phones and support systems for training, reporting vital statistics and calling ambulances, among other services. In India, Satyam Computer Services and other organizations have partnered with the state government of Andhra Pradesh to provide emergency-response coverage for 80 million people. The Gates Foundation is similarly stepping up its programs of mobile-phone-based health delivery...
...plight of the Jordan Valley is also galvanizing a new generation of environmental activists in the region. For Palestinians, reviving the river is a necessary part of establishing a national water system, vital for a future Palestinian state. For Israelis--with environmentalism replacing Zionism as a motivating ideology among idealistic secular Jews--learning to live with their dry country's fragile ecosystem is giving new meaning to the old imperative to "make the deserts bloom." And for all the communities that live along the Jordan, sharing its blessings is an opportunity to nurture the region's fragile peace...
...targeted at these voters and portray Obama as an unapologetic liberal who will team up with congressional Democrats to put Washington on a runaway train of pent-up left-wing legislative appetites. That will surely cause moderate ticket splitters to think twice about a President Obama. But the vital issue is how McCain sells himself. He must show these fickle voters that a McCain Administration will be something they can live with: independent, effective and not stridently ideological...
...writing, helped raise from forgotten to fashionable, from gargoyles to saints. At the same time he sniped at critics' darlings like Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles. (Citizen Kane was "exciting but hammy.") Above all, he urged the moviegoer's attention away from plot and social message and toward the vital energy occurring, as W.H. Auden wrote of Brueghel's Icarus, "Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot / Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse / Scratches its innocent behind on a tree...