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...Galeano's book is a well-researched historical account and, while it does include quotes by Karl Marx, a left-leaning perspective does not rob the book of value. It's perhaps overly dense with fact after fact after fact - the author doesn't zoom out often - but the book still makes a convincing argument that Latin America was a victim of European and American exploitation. This is not a difficult case to make when you're talking about colonialism. But with leftist leaders like Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales assuming power of 21st century Latin American governments...
...body's normal metabolism, setting the stage for atherosclerosis and heart attack. "This suggests that in the same way that not all fats are the same, not all dietary carbohydrates are the same either," says Peter Havel, professor of nutrition at the University of California Davis and lead author of the study...
...Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know...
Legendary Ec10 Professor, former Bush aide, textbook author, and all around good guy N. Gregory Mankiw’s too popular for Facebook. In a blog post Monday, he said that he had reached the social networking site’s friend limit and, as a result, had no need for it anymore...
...victory celebrations, many expect the capture of "Don Mario" may do little to stem the drug trade nor the violence it brings - and may in fact trigger a surge in bloodshed. "When a capo comes down there is a fight to substitute him," says Francisco Thoumi, an expert and author of several books on the political economy of the drug trade. Says Adam Isaacson, a Colombia analyst at the Washington-based Center for International Policy: "Don Mario had important control over cocaine production and drug trafficking routes, and now they're all up for grabs." (See pictures from the narco...