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...date, most of the direct investments Chinese companies have made abroad have been relatively small, aimed principally at gaining access to key supplies of oil, gas and minerals in Africa and elsewhere. Much of this has gone largely unnoticed. Chinese companies, for example, quietly invested a total of $4.2 billion in Russian companies last year. But some, of course, has been decidedly noticed. The country's investments in Sudan, which increased in early July when China National Petroleum Corp. said it would spend an additional $25 million developing an offshore field there, have become a global flashpoint given the carnage...
...troubling, however, was losing the benevolent criminal activity associated with my early teenage years. Bumming cigarettes lost its appeal once my friends and I could legally purchase them; standby activities like sneaking out and skinny-dipping went extinct as kids went off to science camps and spent their summers abroad...
Senator Barack Obama, campaigning in New Hampshire Thursday and Friday, latched onto the recently released National Intelligence Estimate as proof that Afghanistan and Pakistan, rather than Iraq, should be the priority for U.S. forces abroad...
...request for Lugovoi knowing that the Russian constitution rules out the extradition of Russian citizens. The government anticipated this would create an impasse but says the murder on British soil of a British citizen demanded action. The Kremlin, for its part, has been at pains to improve its image abroad, hiring U.S. and British public-relations consultants to help. Yet the country has grown increasingly pugnacious, picking serial fights with Western powers. Putin has recently appeared to draw parallels between U.S. interventionism and the aggression of the Third Reich, threatened to train missiles on Europe if America sited its planned...
...tallest people in the world for years, but now it's in the middle of the pack. Improved prenatal care may have contributed to growth abroad, while fast food and uneven health care may be keeping U.S. height down. Another factor: more urbanites. The average Kansan man is as tall as his European counterparts, but male Manhattanites are about 1.75 in. (4.5 cm) shorter. A look at the pecking order [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy...