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...Bill Clinton took care to point out, it's the good guys who have been winning lately in Russia, the Middle East and other areas far more vital to American interests than Haiti. Nonetheless, the Haitian's anguished question had a point. Some extremely bad guys in his poverty-stricken Caribbean nation had just won a round in a showdown with the world's lone superpower. Not necessarily the decisive round; at week's end Haiti's military leaders were backing off a bit from their early defiance. But if the showdown goes the wrong way, other bad guys around...
...Established as a response to Dubai’s call for improved health care infrastructure, HMSDC has served as both an educational institution and a hub for research on health problems endemic to the area, as well as health care strategies that could be applied worldwide. And even in the face of the global economic recession, it is still going strong...
...take advantage of problems that are common in the area and lend themselves to investigation,” says Ajay K. Singh, Chief Academic Officer at HMSDC and Executive Director of the Dubai Harvard Foundation for Medical Research, which spearheads research efforts in the area. For example, two major issues in the Middle East are autism and diabetes, which alone affects over 25 percent of the population, according to Singh...
...staff member to Massachusetts congressman Michael E. Capuano. “We can be the ones to bounce back first and stronger—we’re not in debt, our political leaders are on board and we have the brain power not only in the five-college area,” Chang said. Gore’s campaign outlines the reduction of carbon in the atmosphere from its current level of 387 parts per million to below 350 parts per million. Activists at the town hall event said that in the short term, they would focus on encouraging...
...harassed while cruising 75 nautical miles off the coast of Hainan. Five Chinese vessels surrounded it and tried to snatch its towed array radar from the water. Gates, responding to the incident, said he "didn't think [the Chinese] are trying to push the 7th Fleet out of that area." But hawks, as Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute has said, believe "that is precisely what the Chinese would like...