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India-U.S. atomic pact

The high-profile nuclear cooperation deal that lies at the heart of warming ties between India and the U.S. has run into serious trouble over the fine print.

Officials on both sides are expressing growing frustration over each other’s seeming intransigence in overcoming the final obstacles to sealing the agreement, which would reverse years of U.S. policy and allow American companies to sell and share civilian nuclear technology with India even though it has refused to join the global nuclear nonproliferation regime.

When proposed nearly two years ago, the nuclear pact made headlines as proof that the world’s most populous democracy had joined hands with the most powerful to create a new balance of power, especially as a counter to a rising China.

But negotiators have been unable to reach agreement on issues concerning India’s right to conduct nuclear tests, its desire to reprocess spent fuel and its demand for assurances of uninterrupted nuclear fuel supplies.

Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon is scheduled to meet with U.S. Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns in Washington today and Tuesday to give added impetus to efforts at finding a solution, amid signs in both countries that patience is wearing thin.

“Burns is now increasingly frustrated,” said Jon Wolfsthal, a nonproliferation expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington. “They feel they bent over and pushed this deal. Now it’s time for the Indians to step up and close the deal.”

‘Shrill comments’

Here in the Indian capital, the souring mood is summed up in regular news reports blaming the stalemate on the Americans’ “rigid stance” and huffing at what one newspaper called “increasingly shrill comments” by senior members of the Bush administration.

Considerable political will remains on both sides to finalize the agreement, which President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lobbied hard to sell to their respective legislatures. Many regard the deal as the most visible symbol of improving relations between the two countries, and of growing acceptance of India’s status as a rising, nuclear-armed power.

But the areas of contention bedeviling the accord are proving tough to resolve, particularly because they touch on sensitivities relating to Indian sovereignty and bitter historical memory.

India exploded its first atomic device in 1974 and became a declared nuclear-weapons state nine years ago, after a nuclear test in the Rajasthani desert that prompted archrival Pakistan to follow suit, sparking fears of an arms race in South Asia. The U.S. slapped economic sanctions on both countries, but relaxed them after Sept. 11.

Though the proposed nuclear agreement would exempt India from the U.S. ban on technology transfer to countries outside the international nonproliferation treaty, Washington would still be bound by law to suspend assistance if New Delhi conducted more nuclear tests.

“Such a requirement is an affront to India’s sovereign prerogatives,” the daily Hindu said in an editorial last week, echoing the argument of many critics of the deal. “It is therefore completely unacceptable.”

At this point, neither side appears willing to budge.

“We’ve made it clear we’re not going to change the laws,” U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

Another area of dispute is India’s insistence that it be allowed to reprocess nuclear fuel from the U.S. to extract plutonium, which it says would be used only for peaceful purposes as it seeks to increase power production to keep its economy booming.

The U.S. has granted reprocessing rights to its European allies and to Japan for decades. But officials say that Washington’s relationship with New Delhi, one marked by distrust and suspicion for most of its history, has not matured enough for the same treatment to be extended to India.

That feeling of suspicion still resonates today among politicians and intellectuals here in India, on both the left and right. New Delhi says it has felt the sting of U.S. bad faith and betrayal in the past.

Sex Education in the United States

Sex and Pregnancy Among Teens

• By their 18th birthday, six in 10 teenage women and more than five in 10 teenage men have had sexual intercourse.

• Between 1995 and 2002, the number of teens aged 15–17 who had ever engaged in sexual intercourse declined 10%.

• Of the approximately 750,000 teen pregnancies that occur each year, 82% are unintended. More than one-quarter end in abortion.

• The pregnancy rate among U.S. women aged 15–19 has declined steadily—from 117 pregnancies per 1,000 women in 1990 to 75 per 1,000 women in 2002.

• Approximately 14% of the decline in teen pregnancy between 1995 and 2002 was due to teens’ delaying sex or having sex less often, while 86% was due to an increase in sexually experienced teens’ contraceptive use.

• Despite the decline, the United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world—almost twice as high as those of England, Wales and Canada, and eight times as high as those of the Netherlands and Japan.

• Every year, roughly nine million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur among teens and young adults in the United States. Compared with rates among teens in Canada and Western Europe, rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia among U.S. teens are extremely high.

• Though teens in the United States have levels of sexual activity similar to levels among their Canadian, English, French and Swedish peers, they are more likely to have shorter and more sporadic sexual relationships and are less likely to use contraceptives.
Sex Education: Teens’ Perspectives

• By 2002, one-third of teens had not received any formal instruction about contraception.

• More than one in five adolescents (21% of females and 24% of males) received abstinence education without receiving instruction about birth control in 2002, compared with 8–9% in 1995.

• In 2002, only 62% of sexually experienced female teens had received instruction about contraception before they first had sex, compared with 72% in 1995.

• Only one out of three sexually experienced black males and fewer than half of sexually experienced black females had received instruction about contraception before the first time they had sex.

• One-quarter of sexually experienced teens had not received instruction about abstinence before first

BRAZIL CULTURE & ARTS

BRAZIL CULTURE & ARTS is an organization dedicated to bringing Brazilian culture, history, dance and art to the Bay Area. Under the leadership of Mestre Beiçola, a native of Rio de Jainero, the organization includes a Capoeira performing group, Capoeira Narahari, and a dance company, Sambão, as well as several on-going samba & capoeira classes for children and adults throughout the Bay Area.

BRAZIL CULTURE & ARTS offers rich programming and performances in the martial arts, dance and music of this exceptional South American nation. The organization boasts Capoeira academies in Brazil and America, a Rio-style samba school and performing company as well as a variety of ongoing classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

BRAZIL CULTURE & ARTS sponsors cultural tours to several Brazilian states each winter and summer. Scores of people have enjoyed these tours, which offer firsthand experience of the country's finest masters of the arts and a unique insight into the unparalleled spirit of the Brazilian people.

Ignorant About Hunger

I don't believe that there is anyone going hungry in America simply by reason of denial or lack of ability to feed them,'' President Reagan said to visiting high school students last week. ''It is by people not knowing where or how to get this help.''

You're right, Mr. President, that lack of information is part of the hunger problem, but do you know why so many Americans are unsure of where to turn when their pockets and larders are empty? Would you believe that your own Administration is to blame? Here's how.

In 1971, Congress enacted an outreach program to insure that organizations involved with poor people, like senior citizens' centers and unemployment offices, provide information about the nation's food programs. The Federal Government provided booklets and paid half the program costs.

In 1981, however, the Administration tried to get this outreach provision repealed, leaving the states free to choose whether or not to participate. Then Senator Jesse Helms had an idea the Administration liked even better. Let the states continue their programs if they want, he said, but without a dime of Federal money. The Administration supported the Helms proposal, which Congress then accepted. Some states continued to promulgate information. A lot more didn't, or did so less effectively.

Two years later, Representative Leon Panetta, Democrat of California, proposed requiring outreach again - but only to reach the elderly, disabled and unemployed. Again Mr. Helms objected, and again the Administration concurred. The Panetta proposal passed the House; a counterpart never even made it to the Senate.

Perhaps you can see, Mr. President, why some Americans don't know ''where or how to get this help.'' That even some help is available in the first place is partly the result of Congress's forcing you to spend money you wanted to cut. Your budget proposed dropping the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which helps communities deal with hunger and homelessness. It called for eliminating $50 million that helps local food banks transport and store surplus commodities.

Coincidentally, that's the same amount of money that Hands Across America hopes to raise today with its nationwide human chain. We understand you're joining in; if you're serious about hunger, there's a lot more you could do to show it.

The hungry aren't the only ones who lack information about the nation's nutrition programs. But they have an excuse.

United States Marriage

“The Massachusetts court has clearly said that same-sex partners should have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “Any couple should be free to demonstrate their love and commitment to each other through marriage. The state should not discriminate in this deeply personal area because of the partners’ gender or sexual orientation.”

On November 18, the state’s highest court ordered in Goodridge et. al. v Department of Public Health that gay and lesbian couples be admitted to the full rights of civil marriage. The court gave the state legislature six months to amend laws to conform with the decision. Since then, several prominent state officials—including Governor Mitt Romney, Attorney General Thomas Reilly, and Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Finneran—have suggested that the legislature create special “civil unions” for gay and lesbian couples. These “civil unions” would provide some of the rights of marriage, but would create a separate but unequal system that would fail to meet the court’s stipulation.

“History shows again and again that separate is never equal,” said Roth. “Civil unions rarely if ever offer the full roster of rights that marriage entails. And they stigmatize same-sex relationships by suggesting they deserve only second-class recognition.”

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The development of the culture of the United States of America—music, cinema, dance, architecture, literature, poetry, cuisine and the visual arts—has been marked by a tension between two strong sources of inspiration: European sophistication and domestic originality.

American music is heard all over the world, such as through MTV, Channel V, VH1 and by singers such as Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Mariah Carey, and the Backstreet Boys; American movies and television shows can be seen almost anywhere[citation needed], including icons like Star Wars, Titanic and The Matrix; American sports figures are widely known, such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Venus Williams, Mike Tyson and Michael Johnson; and American movie actors and actresses are widely recognized such as Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Marilyn Monroe, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Cruise. This is in very stark contrast to the early days of the American republic, when the country was generally seen as an agricultural backwater with little to offer the culturally advanced world centers of Europe and Asia. At the beginning of her fifth century, nearly every major American city offers classical and popular music; historical, scientific and art research centers and museums; dance performances, musicals and plays; outdoor art projects and internationally significant architecture. This development is a result of both contributions by private philanthropists and government funding.