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...latest estimates show just how widespread that problem is. In 2007 there were 12 million new cancer cases worldwide, a record high; in 2000, the number was 10 million and in 1975 it was 5.9 million. Of the new cases last year, nearly half struck in developing countries. If these trends continue, health officials predict that by 2030, 17 million people will die worldwide of cancer, and 75 million people will be living with the disease and require treatment and follow-up care. That makes cancer the leading killer in the world, claiming more lives than AIDS, TB and malaria...
...united to drive the foreigners out turned on each other, further destroying the country in a brutal civil war marked by warlord rule. The government collapsed, and militia commanders were able to seize territory, terrorize the population and, in some cases, even issue currency. The Taliban capitalized on widespread disgust with their savagery, eventually coming to power in 1996. The U.S., unwilling to commit large numbers of ground troops when it went to overthrow the Taliban government, relied instead on the northern warlords and their militias. In a grave mistake that was to haunt Afghanistan for years to come, many...
...Abdel Kader's resentment and fear of the private security contractors hired by the U.S. is widespread in Iraq. The hired guns, who protect diplomats, dignitaries and businesspeople, tear through the streets of the capital in convoys of armored SUVs - modern-day cowboys armed to the teeth as they ride roughshod over civilian traffic...
...Mumbai's rage be channeled into real change for all of India? Indians want better intelligence, more responsive emergency services, stronger border defense, but some are also calling for an acknowledgement of the poisonous disaffection among Indian Muslims, widespread corruption among local police and the other ugly realities under the surface of India's much heralded economic boom. "Deep down, there is this pervasive feeling of massive government failure," says Mujibur Rehman, a political scientist at the Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies at the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi. The attacks on Mumbai have forced India...
Shai Agassi, the founder and CEO of Better Place, a company devoted to supporting the widespread usage of electric cars, touted the idea of transportation as a subscription service in a speech to a packed forum at the Institute of Politics yesterday...