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Judging from the coverage on parenting blogs, the series is not only a gasp-inducing freak show; it has also become a guilty pleasure for new mothers. A stay-at-home mom in Iowa who blogs on the site Funny in the 'Hood and reports having seen every episode of the show, some twice, expresses wonder that anyone can make it through nine months of pregnancy without having a clue something is up. "Can you imagine sitting down on the toilet and thinking something is going to come out of somewhere," she writes on her blog, "only to discover that...
That view did not go down well at home. Most Germans - 69% in a recent poll - want their troops out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. Merkel is now under growing pressure from Washington and other contributors to the Afghanistan mission to boost the German presence as part of Barack Obama's surge strategy. As a genuine Atlanticist, she will not want to snub the U.S. call for help. But as an arch-pragmatist, she knows that public opinion in Germany will not blithely countenance a significant increase. She refuses to comment on her plans until she attends an international...
Carlsen joins chess's élite at a time of unprecedented change. He is one of a generation of players who learned the game from computers. To this day, he's not certain if he has an actual board at home. "I might have one somewhere. I'm not sure," he says. Powerful chess programs, which now routinely beat the best human competitors, have allowed grand masters to study positions at a deeper level than was possible before. Short says top players can now spend almost an entire game trading moves that have been scripted by the same program...
Sending the Hmong Home...
...Thai government began forcibly repatriating more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong to their native Laos on Dec. 28, despite expressions of concern from the U.N. and foreign governments and pleas from the refugees, who say they face persecution at home. The Hmong fought on the side of the U.S. in the conflicts that ravaged Southeast Asia in the 1970s, and a handful of rebels are still waging an insurgency against Laos' communist government. Although 158 deportees are legitimate refugees, as declared by the U.N., Bangkok refused to continue providing them asylum. Some 300,000 Hmong have fled to Thailand since...