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...fuel China's awesome economic growth. But there is much more going on than a meet, greet and grab from the African continent. China has big economic plans and ambitions in Africa that go beyond oil and minerals. While much of the world still views Africa as a basket-case continent, Beijing is thinking ahead and busy establishing a foothold in Africa's potentially large consumer markets. (See pictures of how the Chinese are changing life in Africa...
...Although he left behind incensed colonials and an outraged, critical press after his tropical stories were published, it is undeniable that Asia unlocked some deep well of creativity in Maugham. Hastings makes the unimpeachable case that posterity will remember Maugham, first and foremost, for these undeluded, worldly-wise, sometimes shocking tales of white colonist-planters exiled in the steamy jungle. In later years, when he visited Mexico and Central America, he was to write that these countries did not give him a fraction of the inspiration that he got from Asia. There is a just measure of reward...
...Diseases have been stamped out before. The last case of naturally occurring smallpox was in 1977, after the disease killed about 300 million people earlier in the century. But finding a cure for malaria has proven more elusive. Artemisinin, which is still considered the most effective malaria treatment today, is derived from sweet wormwood, an herb native to Asia. It's been used to fight the disease in China for more than 2,000 years, but it wasn't until 1965 that the cure was isolated and purified by the Chinese military after its soldiers started falling ill during...
...drunks, where you assume that if they hold on to each other, they will walk straight," says Adam Pilarski, senior vice-president of U.S. aviation consultancy Avitas. He points to the bungled 2005 merger of US Airways and America West, and adds, "That's usually not the case...
Quotes About: "I believe Preet Bharara will be one of the most outstanding U.S. Attorneys that the Southern District, or any other, has ever had. He is smart, hardworking, focused and unafraid to proceed wherever the facts of a case may lead." - Senator Chuck Schumer, in a statement after Barack Obama nominated Bharara to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Wall Street Journal...