Chinese chemicals flow unchecked to market
International Herald Tribune - In January, Honor International Pharmtech was accused of shipping counterfeit drugs into the United States. Even so, the Chinese chemical company — whose motto is “Thinking Much of Honor” — was openly marketing its products in October to thousands of buyers here at the world’s biggest trade show for pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Nicolas Sarkozy faces backlash over pay rise and orphans fiasco
Times - President Sarkozy of France was at the centre of a furious row last night after winning a 140 per cent pay rise. Jean-François Copé, the head of the Union for a Popular Movement parliamentary group, said that the French President’s salary would be brought into line with that of the Prime Minister, who earns €240,000 (£167,000) a year. At present, Mr Sarkozy earns €101,488 a year — less than all his ministers.
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Sale of Serbian department store marks the end for socialist shopping
Independent - For almost half a century, Serbs who needed anything from a hairpin to a piano would make their way to Robna Kuca Beograd, the biggest department store chain in the Balkans.
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Burma forces children into combat as adults desert army
Independent - The Burmese junta is making more and more use of child soldiers, some as young as 10, according to a Human Rights Watch report published today. Finding it increasingly hard to recruit adult soldiers, and trying to cope with high desertion rates and a constantly expanding demand for fighters, army recruiters pick on children at bus and train stations and force them to join up.
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Hallowe’en: Why Dracula just won’t die
Telegraph, by Christopher Frayling - As literary critic James Twitchell wittily observed: “The myth is loaded with sexual excitement; yet there is no mention of sexuality. It is sex without genitalia, sex without confusion, sex without responsibility, sex without guilt, sex without love – better yet, sex without mention.”
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A Cautionary Tale for Old Media
BusinessWeek - Newspapering’s journalistic and business leaders believe their industry can recover, but they admit it will be difficult. “The newspaper industry needs to move quickly on the Internet and redefine the news and find new ways of presenting it,” says Karen Brown Dunlap, president of the Poynter Institute, a leading school for journalists. “The challenge is to try to do everything at once and yet stay grounded in journalism.”
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IQ i cijena političke korektnosti
Jutarnji list, by Boris Lenhard - Nitko ne voli čuti da je njegova etnička skupina “manje inteligentna” od neke druge. I opet, biološki je ta ljutnja jednako opravdana kao eventualna ljutnja Zagoraca što su Dalmatinci u prosjeku viši od njih. Čini se, doduše, kako svi bez problema prihvaćaju da su Židovi-Aškenazi najinteligentnija etnička skupina (prosječni IQ 115) te da su Japanci i Kinezi u prosjeku inteligentniji od Europljana i bijelih Amerikanaca. Politički problem nastaje kada se javno uspoređuje IQ skupina između kojih postoji povijesni antagonizam.
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Uloga nosa u politici
Slobodna Evropa, by Teofil Pančić - Nije važno što Koštunica sasvim praktično zadire u pitanja unutrašnjeg ustrojstva druge države, važno je što mu Komšić na to ne odgovara jezikom visokog viktorijanskog plemstva.
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