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...recently largely escaped the imprint of the modern world. During the colonial era, treacherous rapids stymied expeditions hoping to uncover its upstream secrets, leaving the waterway for local fishermen and farmers. By the mid-1900s, when the West was forced to withdraw from Indochina, the Mekong had become a byword for the failure of modern military might against dogged resistance forces nourished by the river's gifts...
...Thottam's report on the Dangers of Chinese Imports, from toys to seafood, takes me back to the 1940s, when Japan had a struggling economy. "Made in Japan" was a byword for inferior products. If economists' predictions prove correct and China progresses similarly, both economically and politically, the world will be a safer place, and the U.S. will be fighting for economic survival. Wayne E. Smith, Sicklerville, New Jersey...
Thottam's report on the dangers of Chinese imports, from toys to seafood, takes me back to the 1940s, when Japan had a struggling economy. "Made in Japan" was a byword for inferior products. If economists' predictions prove correct and China progresses similarly, both economically and politically, the entire world will be a safer place, and the U.S. will be fighting for economic survival...
...country's own anti-corruption watchdog estimates that successive Nigerian rulers have stolen a total of $400 billion since independence - the equivalent of the total economic aid sent by the international community to the entire African continent in the same period. Nigeria's governments have made the country a byword for corruption - a reputation not improved by Monday's result...
...most strife-torn parts of the world, a bear market for weapons would be cause for relief. But tranquillity rarely lasts long in Somalia. Since the overthrow of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, the country has been a byword for dysfunction, less a nation-state than a destitute, unremittingly violent land ruled by the barrel of a gun. Last June the warlords' grip on power was finally broken by a dedicated confederacy of fundamentalist Muslim militias that fought their way into the former capital and sent the warlords fleeing...