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...When I flew on a wheezing Myanma Airways plane to Sittwe, a squad of military officers with pistols on their hips boarded the flight. As the plane climbed into the air, two men in uniform stood in the aisle and unrolled a large, laminated map that showed the Shwe pipeline route in red. Yet the general public in Arakan has not been told what many suspected and what the map I saw indicated: that the pipeline, on which construction is scheduled to begin this year, will travel through populous areas and will likely result in extensive village relocations. (Both Daewoo...
...there is more. Whether Russia is tame or growling, the U.S. simply remains the indispensable power for all seasons. The Europeans remember the 1990s, when they could not get a posse together to take on Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia. It took Bill Clinton's America and the U.S. Air Force to do the job. If the U.S. doesn't lead, nobody follows...
...fact that she's not an official school employee helps inspire that trust and also means she can help students schedule medical appointments.) Her classroom is a safe zone for the kinds of questions that pinball inside the heads of teenagers--and that gives her a chance to air out some popular rumors. (Question: Does drinking Mountain Dew lower sperm count? Answer...
...former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who graduated under the first Gen Ed curriculum. “The Harvard Faculty actually thought they were doing something important for the world by teaching these kinds of courses. There’s nothing in the air of that kind...
...down in January, when rail traffic and municipal transport was almost crippled, scores of flights were canceled, and countless schools and public administration offices remained shuttered. By midday on Thursday, 60% of France's high-speed TGV trains were still operating and 45% of regional rail service was functioning. Air France maintained 70% of its short- and medium-haul flights in and out of Paris' two airports, and long-haul service was normal. And while several provincial cities such as Lyon experienced considerable disruption of public transport, movement in Paris was near normal, with the exception of reduced service...