• Of course, anyone who doesn't have a will or has had a significant change in circumstances--a marriage, the birth of a first child, a divorce, a financial windfall, a change in state of residence--needs to act.

    FORBES: Estate Of Confusion

  • Radical reform of social security is the next great liberal reform, easily as significant a change as the privatisation of state-owned enterprises also dismissed in its time as Utopian.

    ECONOMIST: Latin lessons on pensions

  • Congress could change the law, ending the out-of-state exemption from tax-collection.

    ECONOMIST: Taxing the Internet

  • "The number one statistical change we noticed is the level of state-sponsored espionage, " said security analyst Wade Baker, lead author on the report.

    BBC: State-backed data spies hunt industrial secrets

  • This could mean that council tax benefit will depend on where you live - a change to the concept of universal state benefits.

    BBC: Ministers plan to cap council tax benefit pot

  • The development of new technology solutions, channels and open standards to support operating system and other programing that takes advantage of the use of solid state storage for traditional storage as well as non-volatile memory will change the face of our technical culture for many years to come.

    FORBES: Seagate, Virident and the Role of NVM Programming

  • Much of the change is a direct result of the vast expansion of the state through complex subsidies and anti-competitive regulations that invite the sort of cronyism that Mr Meltzer cites as well.

    ECONOMIST: For those who have lost faith

  • That state-run company reportedly benefited from a change in administration policy that shifted the process of approving launches of American satellites atop Chinese rockets from the State Department -- which wanted to limit them -- to the Commerce Department -- which favored permitting them.

    CNN: Related Stories

  • But orders from on high can't change the dearth of funding for Y2K remediation at large state-owned enterprises.

    CNN: Page 3

  • Salehi said Iran supported Annan as long as his mission did not endorse the idea of regime change in Damascus, Iran's state-run Press TV reported.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • As part of this change, derived entitlement to the basic state pension - where someone receives a married person's pension or a widow's or widower's pension based not on their own working life but the National Insurance record of their spouse or civil partner - will also go.

    BBC: Finance

  • One key change in global public health over this time has been the rise of non-state actors.

    FORBES: The Fight to End Pandemics

  • They say that the proposed change could weaken state control over the distribution, quality-control and taxation of alcoholic products.

    ECONOMIST: Your health! (in small doses only)

  • Mr Tung hopes to change that impression when he delivers Hong Kong's equivalent of a state-of-the-nation address, in early October.

    ECONOMIST: Hong Kong: Blundering through | The

  • "The pipeline has come to symbolize something much, much bigger than just one energy project, it's come to symbolize what is our energy future, and what President Obama is going to do on climate change, " said activist Jane Kleeb of the anti-pipeline organization Bold Nebraska, in a state where the Keystone XL project would cut through predominantly agricultural areas.

    CNN: Keystone pipeline protesters arrested in Texas

  • But experts could not fully state the smoking ban was the cause of the change because pre-term births had started to drop before the ban.

    BBC: Smoking ban 'cuts premature births'

  • That would mean California would be required to establish same-sex marriage, but the laws of no other state would change, and no court elsewhere would be obliged to follow the trial judge's precedent.

    WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Maybe Scalia Was Wrong

  • He argued that the deteriorating situation in the South China Sea was the result of "the internal dynamics of China", with Beijing focused on upholding its sovereignty and territory because of the recent leadership change, growing prosperity and a sense that the state-building process was still under way.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Non-state actors are on the rise, climate and population change are new sources of tension.

    BBC: Army to lose 17 units amid job cuts

  • So even while pundits such as Forrester's Hardie lament the state of video content, the pundits also say the situation will change-and soon.

    CNN: Coming to a local Government site near you: Live video

  • Mr Clegg is a free-market liberal who would fit happily into the liberal traditions of Dutch politics: whereas the left of his party still looks to the state to deliver improvements, Mr Clegg is among those who suspect that a top-down state is a wasteful provider of services, let alone social change.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • It makes sense for him to push for change in Newark while fund-raising nationally, said Brigid Harrison, professor of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University.

    WSJ: Cory Booker Eyes Third Term as Newark Mayor

  • In a chameleon-like change of face, the ruling elite that nurtured the kleptocracy, the waste of the state, irrationality and impunity have become the torchbearers of austerity, but only in regard to those beneath them.

    FORBES: Owed, On a Grecian, Earned

  • The award carries a cash prize of USD 8, 000 and will be handed out to the Nabana community through Change Initiatives, a Kolkata-based NGO which is implementing the UNESCO Nabanna project in the Indian state of West Bengal.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • The government's shake-up of the benefits system is widely seen as the biggest change since the introduction of the welfare state.

    BBC: Welfare reform: A chance to curb fraudulent payments?

  • IR You state that Mr Tung supported change in the medium of instruction in schools because pro-China patriots in Hong Kong wanted mother-tongue teaching.

    ECONOMIST: Tung tied?

  • The authority's claim that second-home ownership amounts to a change of use is also unlikely to survive an appeal to the secretary of state.

    ECONOMIST: Banning second-home ownership is easier said than done

  • Considering the current state of economy, self-paying students and students at the crux of career change had to rely on their network and alums to help out rather than the school pitching in.

    WSJ: Northwestern University

  • Still, there has always been enough of a Tory radical about Mr Major to prevent his administration becoming a no-change government, a trait illustrated by its breathtaking decision this month to propose the privatisation of the basic state pension.

    ECONOMIST: John Major

  • The Bush visit will change the tone of the relationship for the better, says Chu Shulong, a senior research fellow at the state-sponsored China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.

    ECONOMIST: China keeps its anger under control

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