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...Then one day Ethan's mother made him a bold offer. If he could go a full month without watching any TV, she would give him $200. None of us thought he could do it. But Ethan quit TV, just like that. His friends offered to let him cheat at their houses on Friday nights (Miami Vice nights!). Ethan said...
...back, 'cause I know that paycheck is coming." Then I ask her about the psychologists' argument that she should work hard for the love of learning, not for short-term rewards. "Honestly?" she asks. "Yes, honestly," I say. She looks me dead in the eye. "We're kids. Let's be realistic...
...called the four strengths. China, Hu says, must deploy political influence, economic competitiveness, an attractive image and moral force in diplomacy. In so many words, Hu's strategy suggests, China must use what strength it can to make sure it isn't being done to again. It wouldn't let itself be done to at the climate-change summit in Copenhagen - and it's determined that it won't be done to in currency markets...
...research institute in Sichuan publishes a piece on vulnerabilities in the U.S. electrical grid, for example, is it just academic curiosity or something darker? Is China's accumulation of U.S. debt a temporary quirk of the global economy or an expression of the ancient Chinese strategy of shangwu chouti - let your enemy get on the roof, then take the ladder away? It's very hard to know. Chance and the future and what we do now will determine whether China is with us or against...
...Yuzik says, so the Moscow subway bombings cannot simply be connected to the death of Abdurakhmanova's husband. Rather, she happened to be at the right point in the process of indoctrination when the order came down. "Once the Islamist community begins insisting you martyr yourself, they do not let up. They will pursue you forever, and you have nowhere else to go. That is the trap...