Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.OpinionSource is dedicated to bringing you national and world opinionOil Gone Wild- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Hidary notes that 55% of all the oil used in the US is guzzled by cars and SUVs. As a result, we need look no farther than our driveways to find the primary cause of our nation's energy crisis. He says the government should partner with industry to provide loan guarantees and give incentives to private capital to invest in an immediate restructuring of all car plants and should grant efficiency credits to utility providers. In America's war against...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26831&password=121618932179... Oil Gone Wild- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Hidary notes that 55% of all the oil used in the US is guzzled by cars and SUVs. As a result, we need look no farther than our driveways to find the primary cause of our nation's energy crisis. He says the government should partner with industry to provide loan guarantees and give incentives to private capital to invest in an immediate restructuring of all car plants and should grant efficiency credits to utility providers. In America's war against...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26810&password=121610160985... Iran, Iran, Iran- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The US plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years. Rozen says it is uncertain whether the move is a one-time offer by Washington to demonstrate its willingness to negotiate only if Iran should agree to halt its uranium enrichment activities, or whether it is the beginnings of a greater flexibility and willingness by the Bush administration to engage in a more sustained diplomatic process toward Tehran--a process...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26879&password=121628257206... Details Emerge in Deadly Afghan Attack- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Yesterday's deadly strike on an American outpost in Afghanistan didn't just kill nine US soldiers, writes the author. The Taliban attackers, who could have been as many as 200, managed to breach the walls of the remote base on the Pakistan border. He notes that the makeup of the insurgents is changing as well. Pakistani militant groups such as Laskhar-e-Taiba, a group that was originally formed to fight in Kashmir, are now in the area.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26811&password=121611249176... What next for the Kashmir Conflict- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The author gives a summary of the conflict in Kashmir: what it's about, who is involved, possible solutions, and how to go about enacting them. He says given the current leadership of Pakistan and India, there is hope that by carrying out some or all of the confidence-building measures he mentions, the first faltering steps toward resolving the horrendous Kashmir Conflict can be taken.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26928&password=121652275681... Cancer's Dark Cloak Spreads over China- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Cancer is now the No. 1 killer in Chinese cities and No. 2 in the countryside. Smoking, dietary habits, water pollution, and environmental problems are the culprits. China has 350 million smokers and another 500 million affected by second-hand smoke. Lung cancer death rate rose 465 percent over the past 30 years in China. The government has to play a major role in fighting cancer, say some experts.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26752&password=121587488393... Tough Time for Sewing Machine Manufactures- (Found July 23, 2008 ) In the first five months of this year, China's sewing machine manufacturers posted sales revenue of 6.7 billion yuan with net profit of 300 million yuan, down 14 percent and 47 percent, respectively, from the same period last year. Although overseas demand of sewing machinery is still strong, Chinese exporters are squeezed by the rising yuan and decreasing export tax rebates. Increasing costs of raw material and labor, as well as a tight monetary...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26751&password=121587483910... A Sad Drowning, a Summer of Discontent- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The suspicious death of 17-year-old Li Shufen on June 28 triggered a public outcry and thrust Weng An County into the public spotlight at home and abroad. More details were released by Caijing Magazine. Although the party's Guizhou committee dismissed the chief and commissar of the Weng An public security bureau on July 3, resentment over Li's late-night death has continued to hang over the country like the humid summer air.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26750&password=121587473718... Fannie and Freddie, damned by a Faustian bargain- (Found July 23, 2008 ) We need to redraw the lines of financial regulation following the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, write Eatwell and Persaud. The US Treasury's rescue of Fannie and Freddie was the inevitable consequence of the "marketization" of banking that has transformed central banks from lenders of last resort to buyers of last resort. Such marketization duped many regulators into thinking that risk was safely distributed across a large number of...http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26872&password=121637507507... Progress in emerging markets is at risk- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Politicians in poorer countries seem unable to leave financial regulation to the regulators, write Berglof and Rajan. The achievements of emerging market financial systems over the past decade have been impressive, but the global financial crisis is seeing many important reforms being reversed as governments in developing countries seek to shore up their financial systems. It is therefore a bad time for the governments of industrialized countries to fan.http://www.opinionsource.com/article.jsp?articleidentifier=26873&password=121637677523... |