By Lai I-chung 賴怡忠
The report Strengthening Freedom in Asia: A Twenty-First Century Agenda for the US-Taiwan Partnership, released by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and Armitage International, makes a breakthrough on previous frames of thought on cross-strait policy and employs a new model for dealing with cross-strait and US-Taiwan relations.

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With World War II passing from living memory, young Germans can examine their national past in a larger context
By Michael Kimmelman
The other morning Jens Augner, slight and owlish, a schoolteacher in his 40s, quizzed his eighth-grade class of 13 and 14-year-olds at the Humboldt Gymnasium, a local school. As part of a trial program, he has just introduced a new history textbook into the curriculum: to be exact, a comic book about the Holocaust, called The Search.

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Efforts to contain the spread of the tenacious form of TB have proven insufficient, and HIV clinics and hospitals have become the most likely source of infection
By Susan Dorman And Richard E. Chaisson
Tuberculosis, one of the most deadly infectious diseases, is back with a vengeance, especially in Africa. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a difficult-to-treat strain of TB which attacks where health systems are historically weak, especially in areas of high HIV prevalence.

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