For Asia as a whole, according to David Johnson and Franklin Zimring writing in the online Asia-Pacific Journal, 16 out of 29 jurisdictions have abolished the death penalty, either definitively or in fact, whereas 13 retain it.

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In a paper that will be published soon in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, he maintains that not only is past economic growth no guarantee of future stockmarket returns, but even future economic growth (could we but know it) is no guarantee of contemporaneous stockmarket returns except in the most transitory way.

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The research by University of Idaho and Washington State University scientists in cooperation with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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