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...equally expansive. A year ago, he proposed the formation, by 2020, of a new Asia-Pacific Community that would bind the U.S. and Asia together in a regional security forum that would encourage stability in what Rudd says is still a "brittle part of the world." The bloc would build on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) birthed and nurtured by his Labor predecessors Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. In 2008, Rudd's proposal sounded like a pipe dream. Today, he argues, the need for such a grouping is all the more important because the global financial crisis underlines...
...condition that Minsk improve its shoddy human-rights record. When the E.U. recently offered a multibillion-dollar loan to help modernize the Ukrainian pipeline system - conduit for 70% of Russian gas sales to Europe - Russian leaders were furious. Moscow has also tried to foil European attempts to build stronger energy links with Azerbaijan. Potential for conflict exists in Georgia, where E.U. observers are the only ones left after Russia forced Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and United Nations' monitors to leave Abkhazia and South Ossetia...
...company discarded the old extractive-industry model and formed a power-generation arm to build biomass power stations for Liberia, starting with a 35-megawatt station for Monrovia due to be switched on in 2010. (The capital's million or so residents currently make do with just two megawatts...
Since May 2008, the company has repaired 375 miles (600 km) of dirt road, leveled thousands of acres of rubber, identified 600,000 (250,000 hectares) more, and won a $112-million loan from the U.S. government-funded Overseas Private Investment Corporation to build the power station. In Buchanan, they're helping to revive a town. BRE pays wages of up to $600 a month for a heavy plant operator and Baines reckons the number of shops in Buchanan has doubled since BRE arrived. Buchanan suddenly has a third-division soccer team, in which Baines plays striker. "It's moving...
...shackles of colonial rule. "This progress may lack the drama of the 20th century's liberation struggles," he said. "But make no mistake: it will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of another nation, it is even more important to build one's own." (See TIME's photos of Obama's meeting with Pope Benedict...