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...step further. The 18-pound UBot behemoth not only vacuums and sweeps, but it wet mops your floors as well. If you're a diehard robo-fan, you can set up special flooring with invisible barcodes that the UBot reads to determine how best to mop. Future models will clean carpets as well, and might even clean out your wallet...
...many ways, a street-level look at life in the Hermit Kingdom with nary a mention of mass games or nuclear weapons. "Anyone bold enough to try to discuss the North in nonjudgmental terms inevitably has felt the need to first establish a protective bubble of morally clean credentials [by uttering] something like, 'I think that North Korea is the worst regime on earth,'" Church says. "Characters in a mystery don't have to do any such thing...
...leaders face so many problems that it is reasonable to wonder how they ever sleep. The country's urban labor market recently exceeded by 20% the number of new jobs created. Its pension system is nonexistent. China is an environmental dystopia, its cities' air foul beyond imagination and its clean water scarce. Corruption is endemic and growing. Protests and riots by rural workers are measured in the tens of thousands each year. The most immediate priority for China's leadership is less how to project itself internationally than how to maintain stability in a society that is going through...
...northern reaches of Thailand and Laos, you can find whole towns where Mandarin has become the common language and the yuan the local currency. In Chiang Saen, signs in Chinese read CALL CHINA FOR ONLY 12 BAHT A MINUTE. A sign outside the Glory Lotus hotel advertises CLEAN, CHEAP ROOMs in Chinese. It is not aid from the U.S. but trade with China--carried on new highways being built from Kunming in Yunnan province to Hanoi, Mandalay and Bangkok, or along a Mekong River whose channels are full of Chinese goods--that is transforming much of Southeast Asia...
...Mogadishu. A few pockets of us are outside. We have a full connection with our leaders, and they are also inside Mogadishu. And when we start to fight, other people will come from Mogadishu to join us. We will come back more powerful than before, and we will clean those traitors among us away...