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...trials ofNorth Koreans fleeing their country made for riveting reading [May 1]. Instead of hounding desperate refugees, the Chinese government should focus on prodding Pyongyang to open up and reform. Ultimately, only improved economic conditions under a more open system in North Korea can effectively stop the flow of refugees. If China really wants to stem illegal border crossings and help the North Korean people, a great step in the right direction would be spurring its basket-case neighbor to embrace globalization rather than just providing aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created...
Geology has only made things worse. Gulf land is squishy stuff, made mostly of silt deposited by eons of free-flowing rivers and periodic floods. When the high water recedes, the sedimentary layer remains, growing heavier and heavier and ultimately subsiding under its own weight. The only way to keep the land from sinking altogether is to let the soil replenish itself with each flood. Human beings have done just the opposite, walling off New Orleans and re-engineering the Mississippi River to flow around the growing metropolis, effectively choking off the silt supply...
...without funds, their standing has already suffered. The PA hasn't been able to pay its roughly 160,000 employees for two months, and frequent border closures by Israel have stanched the flow of goods and services - and money - into and out of Gaza. The U.N., the World Bank, and numerous diplomats warn that the collective and mutually sustaining tolls of the financial and security crises in Gaza and the West Bank could lead to worsened poverty, more violence, and to the collapse of the PA itself...
...It’s a different feeling with your backs against the wall,” Walsh said. “The rhythm and flow changes, and you try to get it back in the dugout by saying, ‘Here we go.’ You try to get some key words in. But you’re going up there, and everyone’s trying to do too much...
...spent years preparing the way. They had moved mountains to improve her sense of balance, her sensory perception and her overall health. They sent in truckloads of occupational and physical therapy and emotional support. But it wasn't until the fall of 2005 that traffic finally began to flow in the other direction. Hannah, whose speech was limited to snatches of songs, echoed dialogue and unintelligible utterances, is profoundly autistic, and doctors thought she was most likely retarded. But on that October day, after she was introduced to the use of a specialized computer keyboard, Hannah proved them wrong...