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Nobody likes being wrong, especially in front of millions of people. But that's part of the gig. The 72-hour forecast is almost at 90% accuracy. Five-day is about 75% accurate. That's pretty good. It's easier to predict the weather than the economy, and it's not going to screw...
...read) and other contemporary Chinese works in translation. But if you want to get the most out of them, you'll need to know about The Real Story of Ah-Q. In fact, there's only one thing missing from the collection, and that's a sticker on the front proclaiming READ ME FIRST...
...many Papua New Guineans, it's not surprising that their nation stands on the front lines of China's global campaign. Located on the eastern half of the world's second largest island, P.N.G. is the most linguistically diverse region of the world, with at least 800 distinct local languages spoken by just 6.5 million people. Yet despite the tribal diversity, the nation is unified in at least one aspect: suspicion of foreign exploitation of its plentiful resources, ranging from natural gas and timber to fisheries and gold. Tensions exploded in the 1990s on the P.N.G. island of Bougainville, where...
...Western drug-company conspiracy. Not for him either the obsession with meeting his former white masters on their terms. If he has a creed, aides say, it is pragmatism, the kind that led him to appoint Pieter Mulder, leader of the white, farm-based Afrikaner party Freedom Front Plus, as deputy minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...
President Obama knows that the Afghan war is going badly, but he insists that the specter of an al-Qaeda comeback makes Afghanistan a "war of necessity." So he has ordered some 30,000 new troops to the front, hoping to hold the line enough that Afghan forces can be built up to eventually take over the mission from the U.S. It may sound like a limited goal, after the sweeping visions of democracy promised during the Bush years. But even that relatively modest strategy is based on some very questionable assumptions. (See a slide show...