Thursday morning roundup

All is not well in Darfur.

China is facing a mental health services crisis. Apparently, it sees greater utility to arresting activists than to arresting murderers.

Taiwan's standard of living surpasses that of Japan.

It is breaking news to no one who uses the Metro system that the escalators have issues, but even Metro connoisseurs might be shocked that a Metro train (1) closed its doors and departed after a mother pushed her baby onboard but didn't get on herself and (2) in response, said the train operator didn't do anything wrong. Now we can debate the wisdom of strollers in the system during rush hour, but since they're allowed (bicycles are not, by the way), deal with them.