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COMMENTARY / World

Jun 20, 2010

Try to imagine if nuclear deterrence failed

By David Krieger

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES — Before the catastrophic BP oil gush in the Gulf of Mexico, there were environmentalists who warned that offshore drilling was fraught with risk — risk of exactly the type of environmental damage that is occurring. They were mocked by people who chanted...

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 20, 2010

A presumptuous command of oil

By Kevin Rafferty

HONG KONG — Bosses of Big Oil have solemnly assured a U.S. congressional inquiry that they would never, ever, be as reckless or negligent as BP in causing the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT

Jun 20, 2010

Grammar and sums have gone — all that's left is a je ne sais quoi

By Roger Pulvers

Hi Bris again tho this is the first time Im facing U my msg that Im prepared to rocket to Alaska so that Alaska can rejoin the USA and we can be 5×10 states again like in Barack's time So seriously Your Mal

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 19, 2010

U.S. and India must move beyond symbolism

By Robert Dujarric

LONDON — The United States held its first ever strategic dialogue with India early June. It covered a whole gamut of issues including high technology trade, science and technology cooperation, civil nuclear cooperation, human resource development and security issues.

COMMENTARY

Jun 18, 2010

Recipes for curbing deficits

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON — Following the Greek financial crisis, governments in Europe have been adopting austerity measures designed to reduce public sector deficits. The main reason that cuts in governments expenditure are needed is that unless clear and determined steps are taken to reduce public sector deficits,...

COMMENTARY

Jun 17, 2010

U.S. military has Chinese seeing red

By Frank Ching

Although China voted with the United States and other countries to impose another round of sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council, there is still little political trust between the two countries, especially between their militaries.

COMMENTARY

Jun 16, 2010

China ups the ante in Asia

By Michael Richardson

In the opening session last month of the China-U.S. strategic and economic dialogue, Chinese President Hu Jintao said it was natural for the two countries to disagree on some issues. What was important, he added, was to "respect and accommodate each other's core interests and major concerns, appropriately...

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 16, 2010

Synthetic biology's promise outweighs its risks

By Peter Singer

MELBOURNE — In the 16th century, the alchemist Paracelsus offered a recipe for creating a living being that began with putting sperm into putrefying "venter equinus." This is usually translated as "horse manure," but the Latin "venter" means abdomen or uterus.

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 15, 2010

Large-scale agriculture won't cure hunger

By Olivier De Schutter and Nikolaj Skydsgaard

BRUSSELS — The World Bank, U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and U.N. Conference on Trade and Development Secretariat recently presented seven "Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment."

COMMENTARY

Jun 15, 2010

Poor grades for U.K. schools

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON — The new British government has declared its intention to do all it can to improve standards of education in Britain. This was also a high priority for the previous Labour administration. As prime minister, Tony Blair used to declare that his mantra was "education, education, education."

COMMENTARY

Jun 14, 2010

India's post-Bhopal recklessness

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

CHENNAI, India — More than 25 years ago on a cold winter night, thousands of sleeping people died after inhaling toxic gas escaping from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal. A train full of passengers at the nearby Bhopal station never moved. Nobody on it woke up.

COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE

Jun 14, 2010

South Koreans show split over what sank their ship

Despite the confident and harsh manner in which President Lee Myung Bak condemned North Korea for attacking and sinking a South Korean naval vessel, his country is deeply split between the conservative anti-Pyongyang forces and the opposition forces favoring promotion of closer ties with the North.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.

Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly

By Tomoko Otake

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