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...full name to himself. The POW-MIA question is emotional, and people have come after him before for dealing with Vietnam, so Dave aims for a low presence. Nevertheless, because he was the genuine article, a war hero, the only one here, the press glommed on to Dave like beggar lice. ''They keep coming after me,'' he said, ''trying to corner me. They don't want to talk about surfing, but I do. I know what they want, but I haven't allowed myself to be cornered in a long time.'' In 1968 Dave, a surfer from Laguna Beach, California...
...paid to the notion that China lacks civic spirit. Academics have long argued that Confucian ideals, which emphasize duty to family, have mutated over the millenniums into a mentality that viewed contributions to non-relatives as a waste of precious personal resources. This trait was exaggerated by the beggar-thy-neighbor capitalism that has been Chinese society's driving force for the past two decades. Charitable donations from individuals and businesses in China amount to around 0.09% of GDP, compared with...
...rest the notion that China lacks civic spirit. Academics have long argued that Confucian ideals, which emphasize duty to family, have mutated over the millenniums into a national mentality that views contributions to nonrelatives as a waste of precious personal resources. This trait was exaggerated by the beggar-thy-neighbor capitalism that has been Chinese society's driving force for the past two decades. Charitable donations from individuals and businesses in China amount to about 0.09% of the gdp, compared with...
...Race for Rice Some governments are not taking a long-term view, however. In a game of beggar-thy-neighbor, they're trying to keep inflation at home from soaring out of control. Vietnam recently imposed export quotas to maintain domestic supplies, which reduces the international inventory and drives up the global price. China has also imposed strict limits on exports to restrain domestic prices. In the Philippines, meanwhile, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo personally negotiated a guarantee of 1.5 million metric tons of rice from Vietnam...
...first, Obama's mother gave money to every beggar who stopped at their door. But the caravan of misery-children without limbs, men with leprosy-churned on forever, and she was forced to be more selective. Her husband mocked her calculations of relative suffering. "Your mother has a soft heart," he told Obama...