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Ban eating on public transit to fight obesity?

                          Obesity is clearly weighing on everyone’s mind (eh?) with a flurry of opinion and commentary, all of it predictably anti-.  At issue is how far the government should go in curtailing individual liberty to combat fast-expanding...

Are Central European countries ready for the Euro?

                  By Zsolt Darvas, courtesy Bruegel Institute     Southern European euro-area members suffered from unsustainable developments after they joined the euro in 1999 and up to 2008, and have had great difficulties since. Inadequate national policies were...

Basic eye care could save sight of over 1 billion people

                      Over one billion people are at risk of losing their sight, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report from the WHO, which urges that many of these people could be saved from vision loss with basic eye care....