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...doesn't even consistently measure what actually gets done. Did you pay a cleaning company to clean your floors? Congratulations, you've added to this year's numbers. Did you scrub them yourself? Sorry, you haven't. Buying eggs from a factory farm: a GDP boost. Raising chickens in your backyard: nope. Forty years ago, buying a VCR to watch a movie at home would have been a significant contribution. Today, picking up a DVD player adds almost nothing. But doesn't the more modern machine provide the better picture...
...flood-control project in Arunachal Pradesh. The governor of the state, a retired army general named J.J. Singh, then announced that India would deploy 50,000 more troops up there, though he tells TIME the additional troops were planned well before any hint of tension - and they haven't arrived yet. ("That's a future plan," Singh says.) With or without extra soldiers, India is watching the border. Singh says the Chinese army recently staged a massive training exercise in Tibet, with 50,000 personnel. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India...
Galactic. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Slightly Stoopid. You haven't heard of them either, right...
Attendee Sarah V. Chace ’80, who is also a fan of the show, said she already uses “The Wire” as a case study in a class on community leadership she teaches at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. She said she came to the event to hear more about how other academics and the actors view the role of “The Wire” in depicting urban life...
...disarmed. But the bulk of the paramilitaries were ordered by their commanders to lay down their weapons en masse as part of a peace process with the Bogotá government. Some did so only grudgingly and have since formed new militias that are dedicated to drug-trafficking. "If they haven't changed or don't want to change, it's much easier for these fighters to fall back into their former lifestyle," says Mariana Díaz Kraus of the Bogotá think tank Ideas for Peace. (Read "If Colombia Is Winning Its War, Why the Fleeing...