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...biggest challenge these days is getting more young people like Wang to apply. The recruits lining up for basic training each year are barely enough to replace the troops filing out the gates. Despite efforts to build it up, the 52,000-strong adf is no bigger than it was in 2002; last year it grew by just 70 members. Yet over the next decade the military must find an extra 2,500 troops. "The adf can't do the things we need it to do," says Neil James, head of the Australia Defence Association, a national-security lobby group...
Furthermore, so long as we continue to be beholden to multinationals to obtain even basic necessities, we continue to reinforce an economic structure that systematically produces massive inequality and exploitation. While Nike or Coca-Cola may serve as figureheads, society’s ills are not the result of the actions of “a few bad [corporate] apples,” but rather the product of a generally problematic system. Thus, insofar as ethical consumerism’s effects are limited to these figureheads, as a general tactic it is clearly insufficient...
Like Summers’ comments about Israel, the basic message about Darfur took advantage of the gravitas of the Harvard name. While the United Nations waffled on what word to apply to the mass murder, displacement, and rape going on in the Sudan, Harvard stated that the genocide in Darfur was something the University took very seriously. And, indeed, one of the most powerful statements Harvard can make is nominating what things we, as a society, should take seriously...
...communicates wirelessly with the GPS receiver, and quickly discovers its location. The turn-by-turn navigation experience was fairly positive, although on occasion it did point me in the wrong direction, as if a U-turn was part of the itinerary. It's no Garmin, but it passes the basic tests. The software costs $300 with the Bluetooth receiver. That may sound expensive along with a $300 phone, but it's still cheaper than most full-featured plug-and-play GPS navigators...
...compilation falters a bit, mostly due to the lack of versatility. The problem is that this is supposed to display grime in all its forms, but for all the attempts at variety, it’s still hard to make a different sounding track while including the basic elements of the genre–offbeat drum slaps, arrhythmic, almost conversational vocals, and damn near the same beat every time. Grime, by definition, sounds almost the same. With all this repetition, it’s a lucky thing that there are no “bad” songs...