The government announced last Wednesday it would offer fuel subsidies to public transport operators to prevent inflation while encouraging people to use mass transportation systems.

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By Dennis Hsieh 謝顯堂
A modern, developed country setting a government food safety policy would typically begin by conducting a scientific health risk assessment. Afterwards, the responsible agencies would make a risk management policy decision based on the results of the assessment, in conjunction with some economic, social and political factors.

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By P.D. Bailey
Just one week after the Chinese government accused foreign media outlets, especially from the US, of creating unreasonable fear about the safety of the country's food and drug exports, CNN's John Vause did a story called "Ordering food in Beijing makes me nervous." Vause began by saying that he used to enjoy eating out in China's capital city, but now uneasy questions pop into his mind that spoil the experience.

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Atomic power is crucial in the fight against global warming. When we need to deal with the leftovers, we'll have the technology
BY JIM AL-KHALILI
With all things wizardly being topical, what better time to examine one of the practical skills that every self-respecting wizard should master: alchemy? But this near-magical ability to turn base metals into gold is not confined to fiction.

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By Melvyn Krauss
The honeymoon for the European Central Bank (ECB) is over. Because European interest rates are no longer clearly out of whack with the fundamentals of the euro-zone economy, monetary policy has become more complex.

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By J. Bradford Delong
Fear of finance is on the march. Distrust of people with high salaries who work behind computer screens doing something that doesn't look like productive work is everywhere. Paper shufflers are doing better than producers; speculators are doing better than managers; traders are doing better than entrepreneurs; arbitrageurs are doing better than accumulators; the clever are doing better than the solid; and behind all of it, the financial market is more powerful than the state.

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On the quality of English

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