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Rival US Labs in Arms Race to Build Safer Nuclear Bomb

July 7, 2006
US scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California gear up for a replay of the fierce competition that marked the development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Yet observers and policymakers continue to debate the...

Western Media Toeing Official Line

March 28, 2003
Media in the US and the UK are too eager to report the "official" news from the war in Iraq, says this opinion piece in India's The Hindu. Western reporters "embedded" with their militaries have lost their objectivity, the author argues, despite having long lectured...

Blue Skies for Globalization?

September 4, 2007
At times, global trade seems to make more enemies than friends. Politicians tend to hear from constituents who fear outsourcing and job cuts rather than workers who benefit from foreign investment and trade. International teamwork is essential for complex fields like the aerospace industry, argues...

In Asia, English Is Useful But Mandarin Is Rising

January 13, 2006
Given the innate capacity for language acquisition in schoolchildren, it makes sense to introduce immersion programs at a young age. In many Asian countries, elementary schools already instruct in English, a language seen as widely useful, especially for global business. Now Thailand has started...

China’s Poison for the Planet

February 2, 2007
Researchers around the globe are monitoring weather patterns that push the billowing smoke from China’s factories around the globe. The factories that lack state-of-the-art environmental protections produce huge clouds of pollution that know no borders. “Just as trade is global these days, so too...

2100年全球人口将突破百亿？或许没那么快

October 26, 2011
当世界迎来第70亿位成员之际，全球生育率约为每名妇女平均生育2.5个孩子。若保持这一生育率不变，到2100年，全球人口将达到150亿。联合国基于平均每名妇女生育两个孩子的假设，作出的本世纪末全球人口将突破100亿的测算，这是广为采用的对全球人口发展态势的预估，就算是这一预测也令专家们甚感忧虑。人口统计学家约瑟夫•夏米（Joseph Chamie）解释说，该预测结果的前提是生育率将持续下降至更替水平而后趋于稳定。城市化进程的加快，教育水平的提高，晚婚现象的增多和避孕措施的普及致使生育率下降。尽管政府部门出台各种鼓励生育的政策，但经济压力、离婚的风险加之对养老的担忧使得女性在生育问题上持谨慎态度...

In the Internet Age, a New Cultural Revolution: Chinese Fans Follow American TV Online – for Free

June 25, 2008
The Chinese government does not allow US television shows on Chinese television networks. But that has not slowed their popularity and could even add to their allure. China has more people online than any other country, and citizens with internet access can download translated shows, available soon...

Trade Talks' Failure Weighs on Other Issues

July 31, 2008
The collapse of the Doha trade talks suggest that the motivation for global cooperation is waning. The goal of the Doha round was to eliminate special subsidies and tariffs on agricultural products to boost economies of the world’s poorest nations. WTO rules require that all 153 members reach...
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