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Archive for December 18th, 2008

China must be a very sensitive country

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

China’s hissy-fit over the recent meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama prompted two bloggers to count the number of times that China has accused other nations of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.  It appears that about 25% of the world’s countries have done that very thing.  The Chinese must [...]

How to make the nursing shortage worse

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

A private consultant commissioned by the Government of Alberta to suggest policies aimed at alleviating the shortage of nurses has offered a novel “solution”—pressure nurses already working to put in more hours. Right! That will absolutely make nursing a more attractive profession.
For some strange reason, however, Alberta nurses don’t see it that way.
Alberta [...]

India: Gender imbalance highest among the affluent

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

For many years, India and other countries in Asia have been seeing an unnaturally large preponderance of boys over girls. Such unbalanced sex ratios are attributable to sex-selection abortions motivated by cultural and financial preferences for male children.
A study led by Dr S.V. Subramanian of the Harvard School of Public Health has found that, [...]