Developing nations offer hope in climate talks

MRI, ultrasound offer hope to arthritis patients

Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by chronic synovial inflammation, resulting in bone erosion and joint destruction. Diagnosis is based on clinical, laboratory, and radiologic findings. Conventional radiography has been the mainstay for diagnosis of joint damage and subsequent follow-up. X-rays can provide only indirect information on synovitis, however, and the modality is insensitive to e...

Biodiversity worries over climate talks

could be used to force large and unquantified emission cuts on them in the future. Governments in both Europe and America are now softening their call for a global target of halving emissions by 2050, in an attempt to build a consensus around a less ambitious deal. Todd Stern, the US special envoy for climate change, hinted of the softening stance at a meeting in London last month. " Our view a...

Climate change talks stumble on

At the twelfth hour of the UN climate change meeting in Cancún last month, negotiators from more than 200 countries managed to prevent the collapse of the 20-year-old climatechange-negotiating process but otherwise achieved little in concrete new moves to build on the Kyoto protocol, a legal commitment to reduce carbon emissions by some industrialised countries, which expires next year. But the...

Consumption in Developing Nations

Language Education Policy in Developing Nations from Colonization to Postcolonialism

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the role that colonization played in language education policy and illustrate the need for first language instruction. Using postcolonial scholar Franz Fanon, the reasons for and consequences of using a second language medium of instruction in postcolonial nations are explored. Colonial languages were used to reinforce the imperialistic goals of ...