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They are the lumpen jihadists. "Today Europe is facing a Europeanized form of jihad," says Eric Denécé, director of the French Center of Intelligence Research in Paris. "These are young men who were born and grew up in Europe. They look like normal Europeans; they sound like normal Europeans...
If Sichuan is plump with signs of progress, there are also constant reminders of how primitive the province remains. The countryside is redolent of night soil, or human excrement, a time-honored method of fertilization. Carts are still pulled by men in harness. If a village is lucky enough to...
One factor that aggravates brain drain is the pyramidal nature of education systems in most third-world countries. In Kenya for example, in any year, only about 15 biochemical engineers and 100 doctors graduate in the undergraduate system. This is in spite of having 800,000 students enroll in first...
Summer brings to mind the town's old Norwegian bachelor farmers, stolidly harvesting wheat with their antiquated, clattering six-foot combines. The Norwegian bachelors were not impressed by modern 20-footers. Sure, you got done faster, but that just meant waiting longer till it was time to go to bed...
As a hushed roomful of executives looks on, Luke Skywalker makes a daring decision. Crouched in the cockpit of his spaceship, the hero of the Star Wars saga switches off a computer scanner and aims the craft's laser guns himself. Goof-off time in the boardroom? In fact, that...