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...Health-care professionals are trying to raise global awareness of the threat. In Cambodia, for example, more funding goes to controlling avian flu, a disease that affects far fewer people but has a higher fear factor worldwide. Health organizations such as the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are stressing the link between climate change and disease, hoping to get more money to fight mosquito-borne illnesses. "This is a critical moment," says Dr. Maria Neira, director of the WHO's program on public health and the environment. "If the public pressure is maintained, the politicians will...
...secretary for international affairs in the U.S. Treasury Department, in a speech last summer. "It is hard to dismiss entirely the possibility of unseen, imprudent risk management with broader consequences." Even U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in recently, saying in a Financial Times interview SWFs pose a potential threat to U.S. economic sovereignty. "I think vigilance is in order when the investor is a foreign government," Clinton said. "My principal concern is to increase transparency so that there is a clear understanding of where these funds are coming from ... and what the potential downsides might be of having...
...film Roger & Me, Michael Moore made General Motors CEO Roger Smith famous by unsuccessfully hounding him to account for plant closings and layoffs, part of the old-line leader's attempts to revitalize the auto giant during an era defined by a growing threat from Japanese cars. Smith was hailed by loyalists as a modernizer, but his massive downsizing and other efforts, including launching the Saturn division, failed in the end, and GM, which in the early '80s dominated the U.S. market at 46%, held just 35% by 1990. Smith...
...writers’ claim that political activism is gone from Harvard at all remains open to debate. While it may have been decades since riot squads passed under Boylston Gate, this fact connotes the transformation—not degradation—of undergraduates’ public spirit. The looming threat of the draft played an invaluable role as a catalyst for activism in the Vietnam era; the absence of conscription today makes political activism an entirely different enterprise. Moreover, the omnipresence of news and technology has lessened the necessity for the kind of public demonstration the people behind this letter...
...political battles over intelligence findings, the likelihood is that the latest finding will spur a fierce new round of bureaucratic infighting. Whether they support the new Iran finding or oppose it, both sides will likely invoke the fact that the prewar NIE that portrayed Iraq as a WMD threat was so egregiously wrong. Intelligence findings, after all, are judgments based on the analysis of available facts - it's not so much an inexact science as an inexact art. Still, for those in Washington pressing for a more aggressive Iran strategy, the job just became significantly more difficult...