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In February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released two new studies aimed at providing “an in-depth look at the severe human and economic burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States.
This week, the EU Observer printed an interesting story on the beginnings of the euro (EU Observer, April 8, 2013).
The EU’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently commented that Europe has been a war-torn continent for well over a millennium and, “The demons of nationalism are threatening a complacent Europe just as they did on the eve of the First World War” (The Times, March 12, 2013). Reacting to hostilities generated by the European economic...
In recent months, tension and attacks have escalated throughout the Middle East region, leading to increasing instability. A recent suicide attack in Afghanistan killed more than 44 people and showed the capabilities of an ever-tenacious Taliban. “Causing the biggest death toll in a single attack since 2011, the militants, strapped with explosives, stormed the...
President Obama has stated that the EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement is his top foreign policy priority for his second term in office. Such an agreement would “constitute the largest bilateral economic partnership in the world” (Deutsche Welle, February 26, 2013).
Pope Francis, who is known for his ecumenical perspective, “reached out to Rome’s Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews”—and his overtures were received with high hopes (Associated Press, March 16, 2013). As archbishop of Buenos Aires, then Cardinal...
Two weeks ago, Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, held a press conference “to ‘sound an alarm’ on the advance of CRE, a highly drug-resistant bacteria” (CDC.gov, March 5, 2013; NPR, March 7, 2013). Dr.
“Two trends in the international arms trade, in particular, have caught the attention of Western governments. For one, for the first time since the Cold War, the ranking of the world’s five largest arms exporters has changed. China has pushed Britain out of the Top Five. And secondly, military expenditures in Asia in 2012 exceeded those of the European Union for...
Europe’s top trade unionist, Ms. Bernadette Segol, recently stated, “Rising unemployment, bleak economic prospects and continued austerity is making people question the benefits of the EU” (EU Observer, March 14, 2013). Speaking about the negative impacts of austerity measures, Ms. Segol also said “doubts about the benefits of the European Union [are] showing...
The extended drought in the U.S. Plains states has caused beef cattle producers to sell cows. In the short term this sell-off has kept beef prices steady, but eventually this will end and beef prices will increase as fewer cows means fewer calves born to be fattened. U.S. beef cow inventory declined 3.1 percent in 2011 and the decline continued throughout 2012...