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...21st century would be remembered as the “century of global health.” He said that two trends of this era—the revolution in life sciences and globalization—will be remembered “more than any particular event, or terrorist attack, or war.” Summers said that the solution to HIV crisis in India—where the United Nations documented five million cases in 2003—will ultimately come from vaccine research, and to a lesser extent from public education. In the speech, Summers made reference...
...this week, it sounds to me like there's a big, shaggy dog not barking over the President's controversial terrorist surveillance program...
...that lawmakers have begun to make the trip to Ft. Meade, Md., to be briefed on the National Seucrity Agency's terrorist surveillance program, it looks increasingly clear that Democrats at least aren't going to argue for its elimination. Like the Republicans, they appear much more interested in finding a way to legalize...
...Basque terrorist movement ETA on Wednesday announced a "permanent ceasefire," to go into effect on Friday, after more than 30 years of violence and bloodshed. Nearly 900 people have been killed, many more maimed and hundreds have been blackmailed by the organization; those who failed to pay protection money often saw their businesses bombed or torched or were even kidnapped and held hostage until their families paid large ransom payments. ETA has long demanded independence from Spain for the Basques, who live in the border area between France and Spain. The more militant of its members call for the integration...
...Accordingly, border guard patrols with police dogs inspected trains inbound from Ukraine, detaining many Ukrainian and Georgian citizens. Even allied Russian citizens were deported from Belarus, if their connection to Russian liberal parties or groups was established. Shortly before the election Belarusian and Russian TV stations showed one such terrorist who "confessed" to have been trained how to poison a city's water supply system planting a dead rat. But even many of those who had previously supported his Boss smelled the rat. "You listen to this-and you think: one of us must be an idiot," said Vasyl Koktysh...