Word: indonesia
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...loggers and poachers, who greedily eye its valuable hardwoods and teeming wildlife: elephants, gibbons, tigers, leopards, bears, pythons and scaly anteaters. The rangers' work might seem remote from the modern world, but it has implications far beyond Ulu Masen's frontiers - from Africa and the Amazon, which along with Indonesia are home to what's left of our rain forests, to the meeting rooms of Copenhagen, where thousands of delegates will arrive for next month's historic climate-change conference. (See heroes of the environment...
...example, there were more mass shootings and school shootings, such as the murder of 32 students at Virginia Tech in 2007 and the recent slaughter at Fort Hood, than in any other decade. There were more large-scale terrorist bombings and attacks in countries like England, Spain, Pakistan, Indonesia, Russia, Jordan, the Philippines, Turkey, India and of course the U.S. The absolute number killed was not great, but the idea that terrorists can attack anytime and anywhere is new and profoundly unsettling...
...Outcome: Just for fun, the Avenger looked up where a person could fly for $2,200 from his home base in New York City - with or without bags. Hey, look! Auckland, New Zealand! Jakarta, Indonesia! Beijing, China - twice...
...development on a massive scale that is not beholden to an autocratic, closed political system. China proves that such a system can provide better living standards for hundreds of millions, and that simple fact is immeasurably enhancing China's reputation and soft power in the developing world. Brazil and Indonesia are proving that democracies can deliver too. But India's size and the measure of its challenges make it a special case. If India can translate raw figures of economic growth into widely shared prosperity, then it will not just be Indians who benefit. It will be the whole world...
...Read "What Indonesia's President Needs...