Word: wakeful
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...began worrying that overpopulation would lead to perpetual poverty, Chinese people have been prevented from having more than one child, though wealthy Chinese - not rural Sichuan dwellers - can sometimes pay large fines to be able to have two children while some find other ways around the restrictions. In the wake of the quake, Beijing says that couples whose only child was killed or disabled will be permitted to have another one. But the relaxation of the policy should extend far beyond the recent disaster...
...Maoism's methods are no gentle wake-up call. India's Naxalites have taken to heart Mao Zedong's maxim that "the seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution," killing and abducting enemies and using coercion and force to win support among the very same villagers they claim to be liberating. To protest state "exploitation," the Maoists regularly order farmers in their regions to stop growing food or to raise the sale prices for certain items. Farmers who defy such bans have been summarily...
...better positioned to take decisive action and carry out a successful vision. But according to RiskMetrics, 45% of S&P 1,500 companies (the nation's 1,500 largest by revenue) had a separate chairman and CEO in 2007. That number is up markedly since 2003, in the wake of the explosion of corporate accounting scandals, when only 30% of companies had different people in those roles. In many of those cases, however, the separate chairman happens to be a former CEO. Only 17% of S&P 1,500 companies (such as Disney and Borders) have truly independent chairmen - those...
Tragedy in Burma It is absurd in such a catastrophe that the military junta has asked people to vote on a constitutional referendum called "discipline-flourishing democracy" [May 19]. It is equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. Too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, HONG KONG...
...absurd in such a catastrophe that the military junta in Burma has asked people to vote on a constitutional referendum called "discipline-flourishing democracy." It is equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. It's too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, Hong Kong...