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After all the U.S. anger over European veto threats at NATO and the U.N., the latest round of World Trade Organization talks showed that America still knows how to derail international negotiations when it's in the mood. The Doha trade round, which was meant to bring poor countries into...
Even after receiving more than $2 billion in overseas aid in just over a decade, Mongolia is struggling mightily. Four years of horrendous weather has devastated the former Soviet satellite and has driven thousands of herders like Bayarsakhan off the steppe and into the capital. By some estimates, Ulaanbaatar's...
In recent weeks, free government rations of such essentials as flour, rice, sugar and tea have been doubled to allow for household stockpiling. Remembering the fuel shortages of 1991, many Basrans are hoarding gasoline and cooking gas as well. It's accepted wisdom that power stations would be destroyed in...
Where there is fame, charm and potential, money usually follows. The Rockets have seen single-game ticket sales rise 55% (group sales are up 100%) since Yao arrived. But the real windfall will come in October, when the team auctions off the naming rights to its new arena. The value...
Touring these swank digs, it's hard to remember that this is the same city where 15 years ago the richest folks found delight simply in a new icebox. The pace of change in Shanghai (double-digit growth rates for the past decade) is so rapid that my real estate...