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Privatization Commission and officials of the Punjab government will meet on Wednesday (October 24) to chalk out a comprehensive plan for removing hurdles in the privatization process of two public-sector entities Faisalabad Electric Supply Company Limited (FESCO),...
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Indonesia and the legacy of Suharto
In the 1990s, World Bank staff used to tell a joke about two friendly government ministers, one from Indonesia, the other from Nigeria. Each enriched himself by taking bribes from a big road contract. The Indonesian took 20 per cent of the contract price, but the Nigerian boasted to his friend that he was even richer because his cut was 100 per cent. But in Nigeria, of course, there was no road. The purported moral of the joke was that Asian corruption was efficient whereas African corruption was not. Former allies and business associates of Suharto, the Indonesian ex-president who died on Sunday, want his legacy to be judged in this light. Suharto may have been corrupt and authoritarian during his 32 years in power, they say, but he oversaw political stability and economic growth that pulled millions of Indonesians out of poverty.
A New Solution for Early Detection of Breast Cancer Proposed by ...
According to the American Cancer Society, 7.6 million people died from cancer in the world during 2007. Worldwide, one in three people will develop cancer and one in four people will die of cancer. Cancer is the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 85. Breast cancer affects one in eight women during their lives. Worldwide, breast cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death. In 2005, breast cancer caused 502,000 deaths worldwide or almost 1% of all deaths. In the United States, breast cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death. In 2007, breast cancer is expected to cause 41,000 deaths nationally. In an attempt to find unsuspected cancers the medicine used is breast cancer screening. The most common screening methods are self and clinical breast exams, x-ray mammography, breast magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, genetic testing and Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging, used by NEOP.
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