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...second book, The Trouser People. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer, stalked by disease and malnutrition. Inflation lurched ever upwards. Schools and hospitals crumbled with neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The brightest Burmese sought lives abroad. The only real constant was the junta, which had seized power in 1962 and run a promising nation into the ground...
...along with other fast-growing emerging economies, has driven up the price of oil and a wide range of other commodities for the past several years. But what's really worrying many economists is the sudden appearance of relatively high inflation within China and the ripples that might cause abroad. Despite five interest-rate increases this year by China's central bank, the country's consumer price index has been stubbornly on the rise. In August, inflation climbed to a 6.5% annual rate, the fastest clip in more than 10 years...
...still light out. 10. The myriad foreign cuisines to pair with beer: wiener schnitzel, sauerkraut, or for those adventurous festival-goers out there, spicy Thai noodles and Indian curry. 11. It doesn’t require a party grant. 12. It’s cheaper than studying abroad and doesn’t require the Office of International Programs, transferring credits, or flying for 18 hours straight. 13. Oktoberfest beads—any festival where cheap necklaces are passed out is generally something to enjoy. 14. Freshman males need not fear bouncers or intimidating door-guards to get into Oktoberfest...
...shelved questions about the nature of the new political regime," says Paul Preston, professor of Spanish history at the London School of Economics and author of a biography of the King. Since then, the royal family has dedicated itself largely to charity drives, hospital inaugurations, and promoting Spanish interests abroad...
...often not so warm. Five years ago, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani gang-rape victim, defied tribal custom by taking her rapists to court. In the West, she won plaudits and prizes, but in Pakistan the verdict was subsequently overturned and she was widely denounced as having shamed her country abroad. Of course it was bad, what those men did to her, I remember a Punjabi school headmistress telling me. Still, she should have known not to go telling everyone about...