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...based breast-cancer advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure convened an international conference of doctors, advocates and survivors in Budapest. The delegates shared stories from more than 30 countries, and the differences among them were stark. In the U.S., an estimated $8.1 billion is spent to diagnose and treat breast cancer each year, and the ubiquity of mammography machines, clinics and specialists shows what that money can buy. In Pune, India, by contrast, home to 3.5 million women, there is just one facility that provides comprehensive breast-cancer services. Half of all Indian women with the disease...
...past two decades, Burma's generals have doubled the army's size to 450,000 soldiers, making it one of the largest military forces in the world. More than one-third of the nation's budget is spent on this massive establishment. The military also runs kindergartens, medical schools and technical colleges, open only to its own personnel - thus creating a state within a state whose primary purpose is to train Burma's future ruling class. Signs of internal dissent are quickly suppressed. Khin Nyunt, the former head of military intelligence who was once hailed as a potential reformer...
...riches. East Timor's economy will have almost no other foundations - studies estimate over 90% of government revenues eventually will come from oil. Before its latest brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors, Burma's military regime already demonstrated such little concern for its people that it reportedly spent among the lowest on health care per person of any government on the planet. Hiding out in its new jungle capital Naypyidaw, the junta has not even suggested that oil money will benefit its people. While many oil companies support the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which pushes countries to explain how they spend...
...Cambodia could be the biggest worry. Prime Minister Hun Sen has pledged to steer oil revenues toward poverty reduction, but his government has offered no clear plans of how it will ensure riches are spent wisely. The promise of wealth has already sparked a property boom in Phnom Penh, a possible early sign of inflation. In the future, no doubt, Cambodia's capital will boast even more classy French bistros. But it just might have more beggars...
...released on the group’s Web site at the start of this spring’s student hunger strike to support Harvard security officers. Of the three, however, only Phukan won a seat on the Council this fall. Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who has spent three years on the Council, said the trend of Dems running for office—and potentially influencing UC presidential elections—was not unprecedented. “The Dems have been proud in the past of their influence in UC elections,” Greenfield said...