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...been out of office for more than a year and a half now--and has spent, by his own account, a notable amount of that time in the bathtub. Yet many Americans still want to believe that Alan Greenspan is in charge of the economy...
...Muslim world that foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy lay not in military intervention or political overhaul but in gainful employment for the people. Jobs, he believed, would produce a middle class; jobs would buttress faltering economies; and jobs would give young people hope...
...initial cost of going green is high--and it can be--the savings can be even greater. Currently, the energy bill for primary and secondary schools in the U.S. is $6 billion--and that's per year, more than is spent annually on computers and books combined. Green schools can also inculcate green values in students at an impressionable age. "We are in the process of developing a generation of kids who are environmental actors," says Rose Ellis, superintendent of the Williamstown School District in Massachusetts, which features a sustainable primary school...
...Beijing, of course, that the impact of the Games is felt most intensely. Zhong Hongwu of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences calculates that total Olympics-related expenditures by Beijing will hit $38 billion, some four times as much as was spent preparing Athens for the 2004 Games. As you might expect in an authoritarian state, it is all but certain that the venues and facilities being built for the Olympics will be ready in time. Eleven of the 12 sporting venues are on track to be finished by the end of the year. A fifth subway line...
...lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is serving a four-year sentence ostensibly for disrupting traffic but almost certainly because of the embarrassment he caused the government of Shandong province by publicizing cases of forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning officials. After escaping from house arrest in Shandong, Yuan Weijing spent nearly a month holed up in Hu's apartment, fearful of being kidnapped and forcibly returned home by the carloads of policemen who stationed themselves outside. Last month Yuan attempted to fly to Manila to receive an honor given to her husband by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation...