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...United Nations to help the Afghan government improve security, has already taken over this duty in some of the most fractious parts of the country from the U.S.-led liberation forces, Operation Enduring Freedom (oef). In Phase 3, to begin later this year, the isaf is supposed to grow from 9,000 to some 15,000 troops and take on responsibility for six further provinces, while the oef reduces its deployment by about 1,500 to 16,500. The timing of these moves depends on how quickly the Netherlands decides to commit its new troops - assuming it does so. Opponents...
...ahead now, and which is likely to win in the longer term? The scorecard: CHINA, reckons Jim O'Neill, the head of global economic research for Goldman Sachs. The Chinese economy is already substantially bigger than India's, and won't lose ground as both grow into world economic titans. According to his projections, China's economy will be easily the world's biggest by 2050, far ahead of the U.S., with India in third place at about half the size of its Asian rival. In the longer term, he thinks, China will also have the edge in income...
...bitter aftertaste. Bad weather and rising energy costs have pushed raw sugar to its highest world price in a decade, about 15˘ a pound. In the U.S., a protectionist trade policy has made the situation even worse. "The 1 million-ton gap between sugar supply and demand will only grow more dire," says Sergey Gudoshnikov, a senior economist at the International Sugar Organization...
...really think that no matter what you’re going to do for a job in the future, working in outdoor education is just a great way to grow up. You learn a lot about yourself and you also get to learn how people work, both in the best of times and worst of times,” he says...
...ever noticed how we often go through life as if we are living at the end of the world, as if the world—whether or not we like it—is going to keep looking like this forever? As one of the first generations to grow up largely beyond the shadow of the Cold War, we seem to have implicitly accepted that we are living at the end of history. The hidden curriculum of our decade-plus of education has been that the world from now on will simply consist of democracy and capitalism ever-continuing, ever...