Nov. 8 – Will anyone be trained to manage your child’s diabetes during school hours? See the Parade Magazine’s November 8, 2009 article, "A Troubling Trend in Diabetes," by Dr. Ranit Mishori. The article reports that the incidence of new cases of type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) in those under age 5, is expected to double […]
U.N. Can’t Account for Millions Sent to Afghan Election Board
Afghan employees from the Independent Election Commission load election materials into a truck to be sent to provinces on Oct. 22, 2009. Afghanistan’s presidential rivals are reigniting their campaigns for a second vote, but two previously unreleased audits produced by U.N. investigators raise questions about the integrity of the elections commission. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images) […]
Government Capping Compensation?
As you shelter yourself in a cool closet from the hailstorm of healthcare promotion, Congress and the President are sliding into home plate with compensation controls in the senior offices of financial firms, … for starters. The new Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act will provide no other than the SEC with the ability […]
Declare Siachen as ‘peace park’
Leading Pakistani glaciologists and environmentalists have called for immediate demilitarisation of Siachen and dismantling of all developed infrastructure there, paving way for declaring the area as a `peace park’. The call was made at a seminar ‘Siachen glacier and global climate change: the role of South Asia’ organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) […]
New Constitution Fails to Spark Debate
The publication of a new draft constitution for Turkmenistan has so far failed to provoke the kind of public discussion the authorities asked for. President Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov spoke about key points of the document in a speech broadcast on national television on July 21, and the draft itself was published in the newspapers the next […]
Conservatives Challenge Ahmadinejad Over Economy
In a remarkable shift, politicians linked to the religious establishment take government to task for failed economic policies. By Mohammad Mahdi Afkari in Tehran The headlines in Tehran’s morning and evening papers are dominated by one big issue these days – inflation. Spiralling price rises have had a real impact on people’s lives in the […]