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...Reach Out and Read Program, a nationwide non-profit literacy effort begun by pediatricians at the Boston Medical Center in 1989, encourages reading by providing books to preschool children each time they visit the doctor's office. Why not piggyback messages about healthy lifestyle habits on this existing reading framework? "This study makes me wonder if we could do that with older kids as well," says Hassink. "We are already thinking at our hospital about mixing in positive lifestyle books with what the kids read." It's a win-win situation, note Armstrong and Hassink. After all, there...
...light of its support for Palestinian radical groups. But those who advocate for a new diplomatic strategy argue that it is precisely Iran's capacity to make life difficult for the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East that makes so urgent the pursuit of a new framework of engagement in which to manage a very dangerous conflict. Like the U.S. National Intelligence Council's Fringar, they differentiate between Iran pursuing the capacity to build a bomb, and taking the decision to actually build one - which, they say, hasn't yet happened. Dissuading Iran from going that route requires...
...Centre for European Policy Studies calls the "balkanization" of European banking, with national authorities struggling on their own - or, at best, with one or two neighbors, as in the case of Fortis - to put together piecemeal local solutions. Gros and many others want a more comprehensive, pan-European regulatory framework to be put in place, a plan the European Commission in Brussels is eager to promote. Among other measures, the Commission is proposing a reform of banking-capital requirements...
...international community's policy of equating India and Pakistan as nuclear weapons states. As Indian and U.S. officials have repeatedly pointed out, the deal has "de-hyphenated" India from Pakistan. "For decades India has chafed at the world's tendency to lock India into a bipolar South Asian framework with Pakistan," says Joshi. "Now, decisively, the rules have been changed for India, and pointedly not for Pakistan." The deal also has a bearing on the regional balance of power, making clear the U.S.'s proclivity to India and sending a signal to Beijing that it has other options...
...While the initial response to Paulson’s plan was favorable, and key lawmakers had signaled their support, it has taken flack from academic economists and the media in recent days. And despite support from Democrats in Congress, who have reached an agreement with Paulson about the general framework of the bailout, House Republicans have criticized the plan, saying that the legislation unfairly exposes taxpayers to billions of dollars of losses. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...