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...Helping Hand Democrats in the U.S. senate have proposed a $7 billion aid package to Pakistan, including a "democracy dividend" of $1 billion, over the next four years to help the civilian government with education reform, health care and infrastructure. It's a welcome move, but opening up the U.S. market to Pakistani products such as textiles would provide a longer-term - and taint-free - solution. The chorus among businessmen and analysts across the country is "trade, not aid." The U.S. presence in Pakistan, particularly in the FATA, is viewed with suspicion. American Predator drone attacks on apparent al-Qaeda...
...question is, How pronounced will the slowdown be? On July 4, the government announced that orders to manufacturers dropped by 0.9% in May. Most economists had expected a modest rise, and the unexpectedly poor performance - combined with other data suggesting that business confidence is on the wane - caused much hand-wringing. "The outlook for German industry is worsening extremely rapidly," says Riches-Flores...
...dish printed as “chickenfish” on the menu was actually a deep-fried fish covered in multicolored sprinkles and served with a large cherry in its mouth. Following that memorable dinner, we visited a school in a rural farming village, where farmers harvest crops by hand and still make arts and crafts using the same techniques they have employed for more than 40 years. The experience reminded me that lunch at Subway followed by a subway ride back to work is still as foreign to the majority of China’s citizens...
...lived my whole life with a deep-seated knowledge that the world turns, that things change, that the second hand ticks around the clock from 6:56 to 6:57. But that makes no difference now. Maybe it’s the Catalán lifestyle that’s thrown me for a loop—or the sun, which magically remains suspended, muggy hot and sweat-inducing, until past 9pm. Maybe it’s the ubiquitous use of military time, or the complete lack of a sleep schedule. (Party goers return, drunken and stumbling...
Nelson Mandela has always felt most at ease around children, and in some ways his greatest deprivation was that he spent 27 years without hearing a baby cry or holding a child's hand. Last month, when I visited Mandela in Johannesburg - a frailer, foggier Mandela than the one I used to know - his first instinct was to spread his arms to my two boys. Within seconds they were hugging the friendly old man who asked them what sports they liked to play and what they'd had for breakfast. While we talked, he held my son Gabriel, whose complicated...