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Smart choice or not, sugary cereals clearly hold sway over millions of children...
China's economy is more than twice the size of India's, and Indian officials are sensitive about the gap. When the two armies hold twice-yearly meetings on the border in Arunachal, the Indian officers arrive in powerful four-wheel-drive vehicles, which are required for climbing the rough mountain roads on the Indian side of the border. Their Chinese counterparts cruise up the smooth highways on the other side in luxury sedans - a detail that Indian-army officers privately admit pains them. In 1962 it was China's superior roads and bridges that allowed its army to move...
Ghosts of Aviation And what potential for humanizing material there is in Earhart's unconventional love life. On her wedding day, she gave Putnam a letter that included this line, reprinted in East to the Dawn: "I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly." In the movie, she writes with the groom snoozing behind her, then reads it out loud. Languishing against the pillows, hand over eyes, Putnam mutters that such brutal words are tolerable only coming from her. Gere struggles to sell the melodrama...
...good day for us, but we were hoping to get a little higher,” Chenoweth said. “It wasn’t crazy great, but we managed to overcome some small difficulties and hold it together...
...Washington was even secretly backing anti-Iranian groups like Jundullah and staging covert operations against Iran from Baluchistan. But a more public effort to reach a just solution for Baluch grievances would go a long way toward securing stability for Pakistan in general. The Baluch disturbances have put on hold plans to build a lucrative gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan - a link that would enhance regional cooperation as well as boost the nation's wealth. Calming separatist passions would also serve as a lesson to the Pakistani military, which, as seen during the traumatic and bloody independence...