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...soon China will be faced with an equally monumental task: how to house the 4.8 million people who have been left homeless by the quake. As a result, victims are living anywhere they can. Public spaces of towns in the disaster zone are filled with tents. The Sichuan Ministry of Civil Affairs says it has provided 30,000 tents, but most are living in homemade structures built out of the red, white and blue plastic used for shopping bags in China. In Chengdu, many people sleep under highway overpasses. On the way to Yanmen village, where 10,000 people were...
...choice women who are largely unaware of his steadfast opposition to abortion. The issue was the main topic of conversation when I met with NARAL staffers earlier in the winter and has long worried the organization. They also reportedly wanted to dampen fears that the primary season will result in splits within the party. A NARAL endorsement would, the board hoped, signal that women could back Obama with a clear conscience...
...caused by the operation during which the laptops were captured: Colombia's incursion into Ecuador was backed by the U.S., but was branded a violation of international law by the Organization of American States, and prompted a regional diplomatic crisis that left Colombia and the U.S. isolated. As a result, much of the region feels the U.S. lacks the moral authority in this case to label Venezuela a terrorism sponsor. Even the Republican staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a report issued last month headed up by the office of Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, advised the Bush Administration...
...means offered by the international community to help the estimated 1.5 million people in Myanmar who need help and are facing death by dehydration, malnourishment, and disease. This is not the first time the junta has acted reprehensibly. Last September, several hundred monks staged peaceful protests that resulted in the junta committing a number of murders, cutting off internet access, and threatening foreign journalists who were reporting on the protests. The junta clearly acts contrary to the best interest of its citizens. As a long-term goal, the international community should aim for a regime change in Myanmar, seeking...
...India are not likely to turn down the opportunity to grow in the present in order to contribute to a solution in the future. A potential means to induce the cooperation of economically-expanding China and India is to financially compensate the two countries for losses incurred as a result of environmental conservation. The system could be sustained by a common pool comprised of money contributed by members of the developing world; the level of contribution of each country could be assessed in proportion to the nation’s level of environmental destruction and energy consumption. By supporting...